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This present website for my work has received over 318,000 viewers since it was created in 2016 .

Currently we receive over 2300 visitors each month to see my latest creative images together with my Studio Archives which come from my north west of England Studio . 

IF YOU WISH TO CONTACT THE STUDIO ABOUT MY WORK SHOWN ON THE WEBSITE ......

PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING STUDIO EMAIL

tpdnorthwest@outlook.com 

RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND

Our design and photography services are available to Independent Film Producers , Directors and Publishing Companies , contact the studio email if you would like to chat , we would love to hear from you .....

2026...RICHARD DIXON WITH THE SUPERMATION COMIC BOOK 1  "STRANGE ENCOUNTER" EDITION .

....THE AMAZONSTORE PAPERBACK BOOK GRAPHIC NOVEL "STRANGE ENCOUNTER" EDITION .

........AND THE HARDBACK SUPERMATION LIMITED EDITION OF "STRANGE ENCOUNTER" .

                           ALL IN COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND .

......ALSO IN STORYTELLERS INC BOOK SHOP IN ST.ANNES ON SEA LANCASHIRE NOW.....

SEASTAR 5 BOOK ONE - STRANGE ENCOUNTER - NOW AVAILABLE IN THE AMAZONSTORE AND ON EBAY FROM THE UK....ITS ALSO AVAILABLE AT COMICBOOK STORES ACROSS ENGLAND NOW........

SEASTAR 5 BOOK ONE - STRANGE ENCOUNTER - AND SEASTAR 5 PAPERBACK BOOK EDITION BOTH ON SALE IN THE AMAZONSTORE UK.....AND COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND........

SEASTAR 5 STRANGE ENCOUNTER

Book One in the SEASTAR 5 Series of Supermation ComicBooks....

This limited edition first book in the series gives you the introduction to the sci-fi undersea world created by Richard Dixon and his team at TPD STUDIOS in Lancashire England .

The book has been released on Amazon Kindle as an ebook....

and paperback book edition release in the Amazonstore .

Its also released on Ebay for International Customers to purchase with the "comicbook edition" .

In the UK its now in comicbook shops across Lancashire England - Lancaster , Blackburn , Preston , and "storytellers inc" bookstore St.Annes on Sea Lancashire......

It can be ordered from all Comicbook shops in England......if your local shop does not have a copy tell them to contact the studio and we will arrange for supplies to be sent out to them.....

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS....STRANGE ENCOUNTER .

Copywrite Richard Dixon - c -October 2012 

Written and Created by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS Lancashire England .

Filmed at TPD STUDIOS UK and on location in New York USA , Mauritius and north west Scotland .

Book Cover Art Design Image for STRANGE ENCOUNTER by Connor Magill - Northern Ireland Digital Artist .

Book Graphic Design Cover by Leanne Mansfield Graphic Design Wigan Lancashire .

We would also like to thank Lee Richardson Graphic Design Artist , Lancaster for his creative help in concept design for SEASTAR 5 The Series on Book One and further concept designs on Book Three .

IMAGE - STARKEY BASE CENTRAL OPERATIONS CONTROL ROOM - OMELEK ISLAND KWAJALEIN ATOLL PACIFIC OCEAN- SEA RANGERS FORWARD BASE IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS......

A scene from "PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA" - BOOK TWO SEASTAR 5 SERIES 2026 .

CHARACTER HEAD PAINTING ART DESIGN BY OMANI HANMER - ONE HOPE ARTISTRY

- CLEVELEYS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND - BOOK TWO CREATIVE ARTIST CHARACTER DESIGNS .

BOOK 2 PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA - POSTER ART OF PRINCESS MARRA BY OMANI HANMER .

CHARACTER CLOTHING PAINTING DESIGNS AND SET CREATION DESIGNS BY RICHARD DIXON .

PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR SEASTAR 5 - RICHARD DIXON AND MAT DIXON TPD STUDIOS .

SEASTAR 5 PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA BOOK 2 COVER ARTIST -

UK MOVIE POSTER AND COMMANDO COMIC COVER ARTIST SIMON PRITCHARD .

Book 2 will also contain a look back at the first book STRANGE ENCOUNTER with a retroart feature created by Simon Pritchard together with his concept art preview of SEASTAR 5 BOOK 3 SEAFIGHTER .

JANUARY 2026.....THE NEW SEASTAR 5 BRIDGE SET COMES TOGETHER....DESIGNED AS A 1/6 SCALE STUDIO MINIATURE WITH FIVE WORKING ANIMATED VIEWSCREENS BY RICHARD DIXON....

ART DIRECTION BY MAT DIXON - TPD STUDIOS UK .

THE TOP SECRET NEW UNDERSEA SEAFIGHTER SUPERSUB IS ON THE WAY.....FOR BOOK THREE OF THE SEASTAR 5 SERIES.....SEASTAR 5 SEAFIGHTER NOW IN PRODUCTION.....

ZERO HOUR MONORAIL SET IN ACTION....COMICBOOK PHOTOADVERT - CREATED FOR BLUEBIRD TOYS AND MATTEL TOYS BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND  1990-1991 .

We will begin the journey .....back to the year 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 , 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 2,300 viewers each month to see my current work projects together with my Picture Archives .

The current viewing figures for the website since 2016 are now over 318,000 .

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 movie style art format under SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM worldwide with sales also now on E/Bay UK for international buyers .

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS ....Launched in February 2023 on Amazon Kindle and then a paperback Book version was released in the amazonStore UK ..

The first SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS video promotional trailer , produced by UK Film Producer Simon Cox can be viewed on this website or on YouTube / Twitter was also released across social media platforms .

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 .

We have also released a Paperback Book Edition in the AmazonStore UK.....and an E-Book Edition on AmazonKindle and some Samsung Phones and Tablets .

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 in late 2026 .

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

                                   BACK INTO THE FUTURE WITH TPD STUDIOS IN 2026 AND BEYOND

My work at the present continues with Advertising Projects and work for Independent Film Productions in the UK , together with projects for  SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM my new publishing production team based at TPD STUDIOS Lancashire , England .

Current productions based at my Studio feature my new movie artstyle comicbook productions with images created in supermation movie style comicbook stories of sci-fi adventures....

SEASTAR 5 BOOK TWO "PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA".

The latest edition has taken  a lot longer to create then was planned as new style character creations have involved extensive building of steel armatures for the large cast of stop motion puppets used in the production process , but we are finally near to the completion of the filmed sequences and its looking very special....2026 is going to be the year of release on this one...

Book 2 Princess from Lemuria will also contain a preview of Book 3 SEASTAR 5 SEAFIGHTER by UK MOVIE POSTER and Commando Comic Cover artist SIMON PRITCHARD .

Also coming is a larger SEASTAR 5 Special Editon Version in an A4 format magazine release....

TPD STUDIOS 21 MAGAZINE later in the year.... 

This special edition magazine will include the complete Book 2 Princess from Lemuria....and an  extensive feature on the MAKING OF SEASTAR 5 .

THE WORLD OF SEASTAR 5 will be another feature in the magazine...a look at the future world where the story takes place .

In our first magazine release special....we are looking at showing for the first time the complete initial chapter for MAGNUS JONES STARCOMMANDO.....our new space sci-fi adventure concept idea....

......presented in full supermation movie retrostyle artwork created by UK MOVIE POSTER AND COMMANDO COMIC COVER ARTIST SIMON PRITCHARD .

FUTURE ITEMS CONTINUE TO BE DEVELOPED BY RICHARD DIXON'S TPD STUDIOS.

Space Time Travel Sci-Fi Series , "JETBOAT JACK" .

This production is being written with photography created from images we shot on the Island of Mauritius , together with further images being filmed at TPD STUDIOS Lancashire England .

This story is based on a concept animation idea that was shown to the BBC TV a couple of years back when we made them a presentation which at the time did not proceed....since then we have developed it further into a comicbook pilot idea which we will release some images to the website later in the year .

STARCRUISER COMMANDOS......the second MAGNUS JONES story in supermation work has started at TPD Studios and previews will be released later in the year .

Thanks for reading my History Career in the Media Business .

RICHARD DIXON 

TPD STUDIOS UK .

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .          

RICHARD DIXON

SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .

IMAGE BELOW.....

THE ACTION MAN NINJA....WITH NINJA BIKE....ON THE TEN FOOT WIDE NEW YORK STREET SET ...ENTRANCE HERE FOR CHINA TOWN....

This was built in the studio in Lancashire to create urban style images for Action Man Comic.....Publicity images for Hasbro and the Action Man Greetings Cards Range for Gemma Cards .

ACTION MAN COMICS AND TOY RANGE - HASBRO TOYS UK - MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK - PEDIGREE BOOKS - GEMMA CARDS GREETING CARDS FOR ACTION MAN....ALL PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODEL SET DESIGNS BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE .

RICHARD DIXON ACTION MAN PHOTOGRAPHY 1998-2005

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER COMICS.....TOY PHOTOGRAPHY - MARVEL COMICS UK - PLAYMATE TOYS

ADVERTISING POSTER - CREATED FOR THE "GIVE AWAY" WITH LARGE MONORAIL PLAYSET OF TH ECOMPLETE RANGE FOR ZERO HOUR TOYS - BLUEBIRD TOYS UK .

BLUEBIRD TOYS SWINDON ENGLAND....ALSO MATTEL TOYS USA....1990-1991.....

ZERO HOUR TOYS....TRADE CATALOGUE - ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY - COMICS - ARGOS CATALOGUE....TV COMMERCIALS - TOY FAIR EXHIBITION DISPLAY SCENARY DESIGN - PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR ADVERTISING - ALL TOY PHOTOGRAPHY....ASSISTANT TV COMMERCIALS FOR ZERO HOUR TOY RANGE .

BLUEBIRD TOYS 1993 TO 1994......MATTEL TOYS.....ARGOS CATALOGUE SHOOT - TRADE CATALOGUES AND ADVERTISING IN COMICS / MAGAZINES....PHOTOGRAPHY AND SET DESIGNS RICHARD DIXON .

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER COMIC - MARVEL COMICS UK - PLAYMATE TOYS ACTION FIGURES

MODEL SET PRODUCTION DESIGN AND PHOTOGRAPHY RICHARD DIXON .

PHOTOGRAPHY AND MINIATURE PRODUCTION SET DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON FOR BRATZ MAGAZINE  - TITAN PUBLISHING LONDON....MGA TOYS USA AND UK - BRATZ TOY RANGE

A CRITTER COMES OUT TO PLAY......CRITTERS - THE MOVIE SERIES......

CAROLINE MUNRO - JAMES BOND GIRL - FROM THE "SPY WHO LOVED ME"

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON - JAMES BOND UK FILM PROMOTION - ODEON CINEMAS SHOOT - EON PRODUCTIONS - 1970'S....BLACKPOOL WETBIKE DEMONSTRATION PROMOTION .

THIS PHOTOSTORY ADVENTURE IS COPYWRITE MARVEL COMICS UK AND HASBRO TOYS UK .

MADE AT TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE UK BY RICHARD DIXON .

SUPPORT SERVICES FROM MARVEL UK TEAM AND HASBRO TOYS UK .

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

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