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THE RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS

WEBSITE  LANCASHIRE  ENGLAND

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 . The Website also shows my Photography and Miniature Production Design work for  Marvel Comics UK , Titan Comics and Magazines , Panini Comics , Toontastic Comics , Cartoon Network Comic , Warner Bros Looney Toons Comics , Toy Companies Hasbro Toys UK , Mattel Toys UK , MGA Toys UK , Kenner Toys UK and many more images from my Visual Media Production Studio based in Lancashire , England .

THE WEBSITE COUNTER SHOWS THE RUNNING TOTAL OF VISITORS TO MY WEBSITE 

 

This present website for my work has received over 279,000 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 

 

RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .

 

We also show some of our images on TWITTER X , FACEBOOK , INSTAGRAM and THREADS .

 

SUPERMATION PREVIEW IMAGE - INSIDE THE SUPER MINI SUB USS ATLANTIS - BOOK 2 PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA - RELEASES MID 2025 IN COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND.....

 

BELOW : PREVIEW IMAGES - DSR3 FLYING SUB TRANSPORTER ARRIVES AT SEABASE PEARL HARBOUR UNDERSEA ENTRANCE - HAWAII....SCENES FROM BOOK 2 SEASTAR 5 - PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA......

SEASTAR 5 BOOK 2 PREVIEW IMAGE - PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA - MATTHEW ADAMS IN THE INTERVIEW ROOM AT SEABASE MIDAS - PEARL HARBOUR....MEETING A ROBOT HERMES REX 1000....More previews for our next sci-fi undersea adventure series made in Lancashire England.....Princess from Lemuria  - SEASTAR 5 BOOK 2 coming soon......

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS

A THREE BOOK SUPERMATION COMICBOOK SERIES NEW FOR 2025...FROM RICHARD DIXON 

STRANGE ENCOUNTER

The first SEASTAR 5 comicbook episode releases in England .

Now available in the Amazonstore UK....on E/Bay UK.....and in Comicbook shops across Lancashire , England . We also have copies of the comicbook on sale at "storytellars inc" Book shop at St.Annes on sea near Blackpool.....

PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA

The second SEASTAR 5 ComicBook is in production at our studios in Lancashire.....it will be released to ComicBook Shops in mid 2025....check out the previews for the episode on the website now......

LEMURIA STRIKES BACK

The third comicbook in the SEASTAR 5 Series has also started production for a ComicBook December 2025 release....more details and images will appear soon on the website.....

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS......

NOW AVAILABLE THE FIRST SUPERMATION COMICBOOK....STRANGE ENCOUNTER....ON SALE AT COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND - BOOK 2 AND BOOK 3 RELEASE IN 2025

BAT CAVE COMIC BOOK SHOP IN BLACKBURN

We have copies available at the Bat Cave Comics Store , 5c Town Hall Street in the heart of Blackburn now....

ZINE FREAK COMICS AND FIRST AGE COMICS IN LANCASTER

Copies of SEASTAR 5 are now available at Zine Freak Lancaster Assembly Rooms Emporium Comics Store King Street Lancaster...and at FIRST AGE COMICS , 3 Moor Lane Lancaster LA1 1QD .

ST.ANNES ON SEA BOOK STORE

"STORYTELLERS INC" BOOK STORE.......

THE CRESCENT  ST.ANNES ON SEA...FY8 1SN...In the heart of St.Annes , SEASTAR 5 is now available to buy.....

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS

The First Supermation ComicBook.....Strange Encounter....now available at more stores.....

THAT COMIC SHOP ....PRESTON

This Comicbook shop in the heart of Preston  , 116 Friargate Preston, Lancashire PR1 2EE...still has a few copies of our first supermation comicbook available to buy....don't miss them....

AMAZONSTORE UK.....

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS....the E-Book version is now available for a limited time on Amazon Kindle....

AMAZONSTORE UK.....

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS....the fully illustrated Paperback Book Edition is now available in the AmazonStore ....the print edition....for worldwide sales.....

TOP PROJECTS NOW IN PRODUCTION AT TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND.....IN 2025

TO CONTACT THE STUDIO ABOUT OUR PROJECTS PLEASE USE EMAIL    tpdnorthwest@outlook.com

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS COMICBOOK SERIES

Richard Dixon's new sci-fi undersea adventure comicbook series created in Supermation Art . The first book "Strange Encounter" is now on sale in the Amazonstore , on Ebay UK and in ComicBook Shops across Lancashire England .

MAGNUS JONES AND THE STAR RANGERS....A New Supermation ComicBook now in production....

The first book in this new series is now in production for 2026 with more previews appearing on the website this year....

STEAMBOAT JACK....A NEW TIME AND SPACE SCI-FI ADVENTURE COMICBOOK.....

A new supermation adventure comicbook series.....STEAMBOAT JACK....written and created by Richard Dixon will be a Time and Space Travel SCI-FI Series with an action adventure story set in Earth's future...or is it in the past .

STARCRUISER 2525 ARRIVES IN NEW ANIME SUPERMATION BY RICHARD DIXON......MORE IMAGES COMING SOON....

SEASTAR 5 THE NEW COMICBOOK SCI-FI SERIES MADE IN LANCASHIRE ENGLAND BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS SUPERMATION DIGITAL ART ANIMATION PRODUCTIONS.

Above artwork poster......ORIGINAL POSTER ART CREATED FOR SEASTAR 5 BY CONNOR MAGILL - NORTHERN IRELAND DIGITAL ARTIST .

 

 

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - THE SERIES

Written and Created by Richard Dixon .

Copywrite Richard Dixon October 2012 .

 

UNDERWATER ACTION AND ADVENTURE IN A NEW SCI-FI SUPERMATION COMICBOOK SERIES 

 

A new sci-fi underwater adventure series in a new supermation comicbook format....made in Lancashire , England .....

Our new comicbooks are created in a realism art format with super realistic photostyle backgrounds beyond the imagination .

Initially we are making three books for a release for SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS.....in 2024 and into 2025 .

These new supermation comicbooks are based on Richard Dixon's original SEASTAR ONE project fifteen episode picture book series which was released to the Studio's website in 2019 . We did not publish a print version of that original series which was later created into the new supermation version of SEASTAR 5 using our new artwork process .

 

THE SUPERMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS

Our new SUPERMATION RETROART PROCESS for SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS in 2024 now uses Maquette Original Figurines Character Designs in our photography art creation process .

These miniature figurines are made specially with steel stop motion armatures with plastic skin for our main characters , together with wooden armatures for minor characters , which gives realistic looks for our initial photography for the supermation storyboards creation plan process for the series .

With the storyboards made we then create an artwork A3 sized print ....these images are then painted with additional elements added....effects added...and some clothing parts added in a paste up technique to give extra realism to the finished pictures .

All artwork images of characters are then blended into our animation sets which are a combination of model animation sets and artwork sets...all brought together on a animation stand rostrum set up for final composite photography to produce the final comicbook style images for the publishing process to be carried out by a printing company .

Some of the backgrounds for this new series of comicbooks were created on location on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean in the nineteen eighties , they will stand in for our tropical island locations of the Pacific Ocean in our book series .

The underwater photography was created by my self in the waters around the island when I went skin-diving there using a Nikon Nikonos underwater camera .

Thirty six underwater images from that time have now been printed as miniature backgrounds for a number of the vehicle model sets for the supermation series .

 

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS ....BOOK ONE ....STRANGE ENCOUNTER.....The Supermation Edition ComicBook....is now available at ComicBook shops across Lancashire , England....in Preston - Blackburn - Lancaster and in St.Annes on sea at "storytellers inc."  Book Store ......and on E/Bay UK for sales in England , USA and Europe , we also despatch to most International Destinations .

The first book episode is also available in the Amazonstore in a Paperback Edition and E/Book Edition .

SEASTAR 5 BOOK TWO....PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA.....and the third book in the series "LEMURIA STRIKES BACK" are being released in 2025....stay tuned to the website for release dates.....

 

MAGNUS JONES

AND THE STAR RANGERS

A new science fiction adventure story from Richard Dixon's TPD STUDIOS is now in development for a comicbook release in 2026...its being created in supermation graphic art .

We have been filming some of the story parts on location near Thurso in Scotland in 2023-2024 .

Images from the production can now be seen on the website....check out Magnus Jones and the Star Rangers section now.....

STEAMBOAT JACK IN DEVELOPMENT FOR 2026 A NEW TIME AND SPACE SCI-FI ADVENTURE.....

Richard  Dixon's  TPD  STUDIOS  LANCASHIRE UK

   VISUAL IMAGES BEYOND THE IMAGINATION

My History In Photography , ArtDesign , Visual Production Design across England and Beyond . From the early days of the nineteen seventies to my latest photostyle Sci-Fi Supermation ComicBooks Imagery and Movie TV Models created in Lancashire , England......

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 Lancashire , 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 receives over 2,000 viewers each month to see my current work projects together with my Picture Archives .

 

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 Action Man Comic which featured my fifteen photostories specially created with Hasbro's Action Man Childrens product .

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 in a new realistic photovisual style art format.

 

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - THE STORYBOOK....Launched in February 2023 .

The first episode in an illustrated storybook  version was first released in the Amazon Kindle Store as an EBook edition .

This first episode , " Strange Encounter " was 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 Limited Edition for the first story in April 2024 and this is available on e/Bay UK as our first SUPERMATION COMIC BOOK Version of SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS . This release includes an article on " The Making of SEASTAR 5 " , showing some of the behind the scenes model animation original set designs and how some of it was created in the studio . 

 

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 Limited Edition are now available across Lancashire , England  in five outlets so far - Lancaster - Preston - St.Annes on Sea - Blackburn .

 

INTO THE SCI-FI MOVIE WORLD......IN 2025.....

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 a new British Sci-Fi Feature Film being produced by Simon Cox called "Of Infinite Worlds".

As Production Designer Miniatures on this new movie I have achieved my ambition of working on feature films in the UK .

The movie is currently in production with live action filming now completed with Editing of the Movie begining.... a release of the film is due late 2025 .

Preview images for some of these space miniatures can now be viewed on this website .

 

 

BACK INTO THE FUTURE WITH TPD STUDIOS IN 2025 AND BEYOND......

My work at the present features new items coming soon into my world of supermation comicbooks.....

SEASTAR 5 PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA.....BOOK TWO....ARRIVES IN 2025 .

SEASTAR 5 LEMURIA STRIKES BACK.........BOOK THREE...ARRIVES DECEMBER 2025 .

 

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT AT TPD STUDIOS 

STEAMBOAT JACK - TIME AND SPACE ADVENTURE COMICBOOK IN DEVELOPMENT .

MAGNUS JONES AND THE STAR RANGERS - SUPERMATION COMICBOOK IN DEVELOPMENT .

STARCRUISER 2525 - ANIME SUPERMATION COMICBOOK EXPERIMENTAL ART IN DEVELOPMENT .

 

Thanks for reading my History Career in the Media Business .

 

RICHARD DIXON 

TPD STUDIOS UK .

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .

SEASTAR 5 THE VIDEO TRAILER FOR THE SERIES IS NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW.......

AVAILABLE HERE AND ON YOUTUBE NOW......

RICHARD DIXON ENTERS THE MOVIE WORLD IN NEW SCI-FI EPIC CREATED IN ENGLAND......

OF INFINITE WORLDS - MADE BY UK PRODUCER SIMON COX....RELEASES LATE 2025

WITH FANTASTIC MODEL SPACECRAFT DESIGNS CREATED IN NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS 

OF INFINITE WORLDS - A SIMON COX PRODUCTION ALPHASTAR PRODUCTIONS NUNEATON , WARWICKSHIRE , ENGLAND .

All copywrite on these images by Simon Cox AlphaStar Productions 2023 .

 

 

 

THE WORLD OF RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY AND CREATIVE MODEL SET CREATIONS.....TOY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE LANCASHIRE STUDIOS ARCHIVES ......

BLAST FROM THE PAST.....My Toy Photography from 1994-1995....with Bluebird Toys Mighty Max Toy Range...from the Argos Catalogue shoot....Pictures I thought lost now found again......

THE WORLD OF MIGHTY MAX - BLUEBIRD TOYS

ACTION FORCE TOYS - GI JOE TOYS....MY PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODEL SET DESIGNS FOR HASBRO TOYS UK....FROM THE 1990's.......Rolling Thunder....X19 Stealth Jet....Sky Patrol....Tiger Force....and more.....all images created at TPD STUDIOS Lancashire England .

WITCHBLADE ACTION FIGURES MARVEL COMICS UK PHOTOGRAPHY RICHARD DIXON .

DANGER GIRLS ACTION FIGURES ONLINE ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON.....

MODEL SET AND PHOTOGRAPHY.....ON LOCATION WITH RICHARD DIXON ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY IN MAURUTIUS - INDIAN OCEAN .

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE ACTION FIGURES PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON MATTEL TOYS UK AND TOONTASTIC COMICS UK

TRANSFORMERS ACTION FIGURES BY HASBRO TOYS UK ...PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON MARVEL COMICS UK .....

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER ACTION FIGURES - PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON MARVEL COMICS UK - LARA CROFT TOYS BY PLAYMATES TOYS UK - TOMB RAIDER COMIC UK .

EXPLORE THE WEBSITE NOW TO SEE MORE SUPERMATION STYLE IMAGES BEYOND THE IMAGINATION.....