Welcome to the Showcase Website for all my Creative Photography and Design , from 1970 to the present time . This website also covers my work for the Toy Industry Advertising Product Photography Visual Design . Children's Comics and Magazines Photography . Miniature Supermation Set Design for Photography , Film and Television Productions in England . Supermation RetroArt Images Photography Design and SCI-FI ModelArt Design Services .
THIS IS THE WEBSITE FOR RICHARD DIXON - PHOTOGRAPHY PRODUCTION DESIGNER FOR ACTION MAN - TRANSFORMERS - LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - ZERO HOUR - THE BRATZ -MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - M.A.S.K. - GI JOE ACTION FORCE - MEGAFORCE and many more.....
I am the former Photographer and Visual Images Production Designer for Marvel Comics UK - Panini Comics UK - Toontastic Comics - Titan Comics - Cartoon Network Comic - Looney Toons Comic - Gemma Cards International.......
Now the Creator of Supermation ComicBook Series "SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS"...."MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS"....and the Time and Space Sci-Fi Adventure "STEAMBOAT JACK"......
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This present website for my work has received over 265,000 viewers since it was created in 2016
Currently we receive over 2000 visitors each month to see the latest images of my work created at the north west of England Studio on the various pages of my studio's website .
IF YOU WISH TO CONTACT THE STUDIO ABOUT MY WORK .
PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING STUDIO EMAIL
tpdnorthwest@outlook.com
I really appreciate you looking in on my latest work on show on this website .
We also show some images on social media platforms...
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RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGES SCIENCE FICTION BEYOND THE IMAGINATION
The first episode is now available in ComicBook Shops across Lancashire, also in the AmazonStore , its also on E/Bay UK......
The second supermation episode for SEASTAR 5 is now in production for a release as a comicbook at the end of the year....
We have also started production work on the third episode in the series which should release in early 2025.....more details coming soon.....
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS
The Supermation Sci-Fi ComicBook Series .
Written and Created by Richard Dixon .
Copywrite Richard Dixon October 2012 .
HOW WE CREATED SEASTAR 5 WITH SUPERMATION ART TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED AT TPD STUDIOS .
THE PRODUCTION PROCESS OF SUPERMATION
The Supermation ComicBook Series created at Richard Dixon's TPD STUDIOS in the northwest of Lancashire in a ComicBook Format has been made with our Supermation Digital PhotoStyle Artwork Process .
This process combines animation photography , artwork and miniature vehicles together on a printed page for ComicBook Publishing .
The Character Creations for SEASTAR 5 are made using a drawn outline art technique which are then turned into cutouts to be used on the realistic photostyle backgrounds produced by Richard Dixon , some of which were created on the Island of Mauritius.
These cutouts are then painted with additional items applied to give even more realism...including bits of real cloth to give texture to the uniforms on characters .
The finished cutouts of characters are then all composited together with the background images to make finished artwork on animation stands ready for final book publishing process .
A number of computer art programs for effects were used in the production , all underwater photography landscape backgrounds were created on miniature sets where miniature vehicle models for action sequences were filmed in our studios .
Welcome to my history in the Creative Media Business which started back in 1970 in Blackpool , Lancashire when I created RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY following a Blackpool College Photography Course .
My photography in my early years covered work across all of the following , Commercial Photography , Entertainment Industry Photography in Theatres , Wedding and Portrait Photography , also shooting Model Portfolios for Fashion and Glamour Models starting out in the model and fashion business in the north west of England , Motor Sport Photography of Formula One - Formula Two -Touring Cars....and lots of Advertising Product Studio Photography for local companies on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire .
I entered the World of Toy Photography in 1988 and added Children's Comics and Magazines to my work with the setting up of the TOY PHOTO DESIGN STUDIO BRAND in the following years , which eventually expanded to become my operating media brand today of RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS , an Advertising Photography and Visual Production Design Studio .
Over the next thirty five years my work in the Toy Industry and Children's Comics Photographic Illustration was carried out under my TPD STUDIOS BRAND , across seven production studios of different sizes at various times all based in and around Blackpool and Preston , Lancashire , England .
Today " RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS " , Photography , Miniature Set Production Design , Model Making and Visual Art Production Design is still created in the north west of England .
My visual media work has appeared over all these years across England , Europe , United States of America and around the world .
The two previous websites for RICHARD DIXON TOY PHOTO DESIGN and RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY have been brought together under RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS with all my Toy Industry work since this current site was created in 2016 to provide a showcase site for my work covering most of the last thirty five years .
This present studio website , created in 2016 , now receives over 2,000 viewers each month to see my current work projects together with my Picture Archives ....the site has received over 265,000 viewers to see my creative work over the last eight years.....
My Toy Industry Advertising work has featured across many leading products over the years , including....
ACTION MAN - THE BRATZ - LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - ZERO HOUR - G I JOE ACTION FORCE - MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - MIGHTY MAX - JOHNNY QUEST - MEGA FORCE - POWER RANGERS - GHOSTBUSTERS - NINJA TURTLES - M.A.S.K. - TRANSFORMERS - BUTT UGLY MARTIANS - JUNIPER JUNGLE - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - DANGER GIRLS - DIGIMON - POWER PUFF GIRLS - QUAKE 2 - BETTY SPAGETTI - WARNER BROS LOONEY TOONS - ROBIN HOOD PRINCE OF THIEVES - DANGER GIRLS and lots more .
My Children's Media work has featured in the creation of fifteen photostory comics adventures for Hasbro's Action Man products using Supermation Photography techniques .
Selling over 700,000 copies of the Summer and Winter Specials for the Action Man Comic .
The studio also created over sixty cover shots for the monthly Action Man Comic , together with over two hundred poster pictures during the eight years I worked for Marvel Comics UK / Panini Comics UK / Hasbro Toys UK .
In the Greetings Card Industry I created seven very successful supermation style Action Man Birthday Cards designs for the UK based Company GEMMA CARDS , together with realistic photography of Action Man for the Book Annuals published by PEDIGREE BOOKS .
My Exhibition Photography Media Advertising work has featured in the promotions for Gerry Anderson's "SPACE CITY EXHIBITION" and also BBC Television's "DR WHO EXHIBITION" in Blackpool , Lancashire , England in the nineteen seventies .
The TPD Studio's Visual PhotoDesign work with my photography has appeared for the following Companies Products in Children's Comics and Newspapers / Magazines ......MARVEL COMICS UK , PANINI COMICS UK , HASBRO TOYS UK , MATTEL TOYS UK , TOONTASTIC COMICS , CARTOON NETWORK COMIC , WARNER BROS LOONEY TOONS COMICs , BUTT UGLY MARTIANS COMIC , TRANSFORMERS COMIC , NINJA TURTLES COMIC , GEMMA CARDS INTERNATIONAL , LUCKY BAG COMIC and PEDIGREE BOOKS ACTION MAN ANNUAL , THE BRATZ MAGAZINE for TITAN Magazines , FIRST LEISURE CORPORATION , EMI , The Blackpool Tower and Winter Gardens Company , Blackpool's North and Central Piers , TRUST HOUSE FORTE HOTELS AND LEISURE CENTRES , NATIONAL SAVINGS , together with many , many more....
In 2012 - 2014 following on from my work with Marvel Comics UK , Action Man Photostory Specials , I started the development work to create my own new SUPERMATION PHOTOSTORIES CONCEPT for an original story idea that would be made at my studio in Lancashire , England .
This new direction for my studio would be created over a six year period alongside my normal Toy Industry Advertising Product Photography .
The new concept would eventually move into SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS , following a pilot production concept photostory called SEASTAR ONE .
Over the six years of production on SEASTAR 5 a total of fifteen illustrated episodes for the series were created at my Lancashire Studio with storyboards , model animation characters designs with images and the creation of model sets with vehicle miniatures .
These have now been brought together into a new visual format of initially three episodes which are now being published in the UK .
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - THE STORYBOOK....Launched in February 2023 .
The first episode in an illustrated storybook style version was first released in the Amazon Kindle Store .
This first episode , " Strange Encounter " is now also available in the Amazon Store UK and USA for worldwide purchase as a "Paperback Book Version" from their website .
Illustrated with "widescreen animation art style images" giving the reader a cinema style presentation in a book format .
We have now released an updated ComicBook Edition for the first story in April 2024 .
The SUPERMATION COMIC BOOK Version of SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS includes a feature article on " The Making of SEASTAR 5 " , showing some of the behind the scenes model animation set designs and how it was created in the studio has launched on the E/Bay sales website in the UK .
This comicbook special version is also available for worldwide post despatch....check out E/Bay UK now for details .
The first SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS video storybook series promotional trailer , produced by UK Film Producer Simon Cox can be viewed on this website or on YouTube / Twitter .
The Supermation SEASTAR 5 Comicbooks are now available across Lancashire , England in five outlets so far - Lancaster - Preston - St.Annes on Sea - Blackburn .
The second and third books in the SEASTAR 5 Series are now in production for a release in a few months time and into next year .
Beyond that two further Supermation Creations of mine will then go into Comicbooks ...Sci-Fi Space Adventure MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS and the Time Travel Space Adventure STEAMBOAT JACK will head into full production at my studio in the north west of England .
INTO THE SCI-FI MOVIE WORLD......
I also entered the UK Film Industry for the first time in 2020 to design and create eight individual studio sized miniature spacecraft models for two new British Sci-Fi Feature Films being produced by Simon Cox called "Of Infinite Worlds".
As Production Designer Miniatures on these two movies I have achieved my ambition of working on feature films in the UK .
The first movie is currently in production with live action filming nearing completion for a release of the film in late 2025 . Preview images for some of these miniatures can now be viewed on this website .
Thanks for reading my History Career in the Media Business .
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS UK .
LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
Our cover art is by Connor Magill a Northern Ireland based Digital Artist.....the Logo Text Creations were created by Leanne Mansfield Graphic Design based in Wigan Lancashire .....
Lee Richardson a Graphic Digital Artist from Lancaster , Lancashire created some special effects artwork for book two in the series .
This monster stop motion creature was designed and built by Peter Montgomery based in Helensburgh Scotland .
Northern Ireland Digital artist Connor Magill created a number of digital artworks , insignia designs and effects for Book 1 and Book 2 in the SEASTAR 5 series .
OF INFINITE WORLDS - A SIMON COX PRODUCTION ALPHASTAR PRODUCTIONS NUNEATON , WARWICKSHIRE , ENGLAND .
All copywrite on these images by Simon Cox AlphaStar Productions 2023 .
Now on sale in the heart of Blackburn , Richard Dixon's new Sci-Fi Supermation Comicbook Series - the first book in the series is out now , don't miss this undersea epic sci-fi tale of adventure at the bottom of the sea....
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS is now available at That Comicbook shop in the heart of Preston in Lancashire...don't miss this undersea adventure story in a lost continent at the bottom of the sea....
Undersea sci-fi action and adventure in a new supermation comicbook series is now available in the city of Lancaster , England at Zine Freak Comic Store , Lancashire .
This Comicbook shop in the heart of the city of Lancaster has copies of Richard Dixon's new sci-fi comicbook series SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS , available now....don't miss this tale of adventure on a lost continent at the bottom of the sea....
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE BLACKPOOL AND FYLDE COAST IN LANCASHIRE AT "STORYTELLERS ,INC . " in St.Annes on Sea .
This undersea sci-fi fully illustrated comicbook series has the first book available now....
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