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This present website for my work has received over 259,000 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 .

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RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .

THE WORLD OF SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS......

Richard Dixon would like to thank the following individuals who have helped with parts of this series over the six years of creation of the original fifteen episode story adventures for SEASTAR 5 , together with the SEASTAR ONE pilot episode production at TPD STUDIOS .

LEANNE MANSFIELD - GRAPHIC DESIGNER WIGAN LANCASHIRE 

COVER LAYOUT AND TEXT DESIGN FOR BOOK ONE 'STRANGE ENCOUNTER".

CONNOR MAGILL - DIGITAL ARTIST DESIGNER NORTHERN IRELAND

COVER ART IMAGE DESIGNER BOOK ONE "STRANGE ENCOUNTER".

LEE RICHARDSON - DIGITAL ARTIST DESIGNER LANCASTER LANCASHIRE

BOOK 2 AND BOOK 3 EFFECTS DESIGNER - SECOND UNIT ART PHOTOGRAPHY 

AL KENT- AL KENT PHOTOGRAPHY CLITHEROE LANCASHIRE 

BOOK 2 EFFECTS DESIGNER - SECOND UNIT ART PHOTOGRAPHY

PETER MONTGOMERY - MODEL MAKER OF MONSTERS - HELENSBURGH SCOTLAND .

BOOK 2 AND BOOK 3 STOP MOTION MONSTERS DESIGNER .

THE MAKING OF SEASTAR 5 THE COMIC BOOK SERIES......

A new style undersea adventure comicbook series designed and

created in the north of Lancashire , England .

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS was originally written in 2012 and over the following six years production of the original fifteen episodes series in a digital production format was made by Richard Dixon at his north west of England Studio .

The complete series was storyboarded and we released twelve of the episodes to the website for a period of three years for promotional purposes in a digital picture model animation version .

This original version of the production was replaced into our archives when we started production on the new supermation comicbook version of SEASTAR 5 .

SEASTAR 5 Supermation ComicBooks have now been created over a two year period and released with Book One in three versions....the Amazon Kindle Download Version....the Amazon Graphic Novel Paperback version in the AmazonStore....and the full "Supermation ComicBook" version which can be purchased at ComicBook Shops across Lancashire , England.....its also available on E/Bay for International Customers to purchase .

SEASTAR 5 BOOK TWO AND BOOK THREE ARE NOW BOTH IN PRODUCTION.....

RELEASE DATES WILL BE PUBLISHED 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 on a printed page for ComicBook  Publishing .

All Character Creations are made using a drawn outline artwork technique which are then turned into prints for cutout style animation work .

These are then painted as required by Richard Dixon at his studio centre in Lancashire using various mixed painting techniques .

A number of computer art programs for effects are also used in the production , although all underwater photography landscape backgrounds are created on miniature sets where we photograph miniature vehicle models for action sequences .

The character animation artwork is finally added to our photostyle backgrounds as composite artwork using a combination of photography and cutout animation work which is done  on animation photography copy stands ready for the finished comicbook publishing process .

ACTION MAN.....TRANSFORMERS.....LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER.....GI JOE ACTION FORCE.....ZERO HOUR.....MIGHTY MAX.....WITCHBLADE.....MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.....SPACE 1999 GERRY ANDERSON EXHIBITIONS.....THE BRATZ.....AND MANY MORE.....

THE BRATZ GIRLS DO HALLOWEEN....HAUNTED HOUSE STUDIO MODEL SET DESIGNED AND BUILT AT RICHARD DIXON'S TPD STUDIOS IN LANCASHIRE ENGLAND .

THE BRATZ ON LOCATION - NIGHT SHOOT AT BLACKPOOL ILLUMINATIONS PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS UK .

ON LOCATION BLACKPOOL SPORTS ARENA STANLEY PARK BLACKPOOL LANCASHIRE .

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS UK .

 BRATZ TOYS BY MGA TOYS USA . BRATZ MAGAZINE - TITAN PUBLISHING LONDON .

ALL BRATZ IMAGES FROM THE BRATZ MAGAZINE - TITAN PUBLISHING LONDON

ALL PHOTOGRAPHY AND SET DESIGN CREATIONS BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS UK.

ACTION MAN TOYS - TOY PHOTOGRAPHY AND SUPERMATION MODEL SET DESIGN CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON - TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND - MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK - HASBRO TOYS UK - 3D LICENSING LONDON .

TOY PHOTOGRAPHY AND SUPERMATION MODEL DISPLAY SET DESIGN FOR TRANSFORMERS COMIC BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS UK - MARVEL COMICS UK - HASBRO TOYS UK - PANINI COMICS UK .

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER TOYS - TOY PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND - MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK - PLAYMATE TOYS UK - SUPERMATION MODEL SET DESIGN CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON .

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE TOYS - TOY PHOTOGRAPHY AND SUPERMATION MODEL SET DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND - TOONTASTIC COMICS - MATTEL 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 .

PHOTOGRAPHY , MODEL MAKING , SUPERMATION RETROART PHOTO-IMAGES , COMICBOOKS PHOTODESIGN , SCI-FI FILM AND TV MODEL MAKING SERVICES , PUBLICITY PHOTOGRAPHY , MINIATURE SET DESIGN FOR ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY , TOY PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN .

CHILDREN'S COMICBOOK WRITER AND CREATOR FOR THE SEASTAR 5 SUPERMATION SERIES .

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 259,000 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 in three versions for this first release .

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - LAUNCHES IN ENGLAND - February 2023 .

The first episode in an illustrated storybook  style version was first  released in February 2023 as a digital download on the Amazon Kindle Store .

This first episode " Strange Encounter " from the series is also now available in Amazon Store UK and USA  for worldwide purchase as a "Paperback Book Version" from their website .

This version is illustrated with "widescreen animation art style images" giving the reader a cinema style presentation in a book format .

THE SUPERMATION ILLUSTRATED EDITION COMICBOOK VERSION - Launched 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 .

In May 2024 we released a limited number of SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - Supermation Edition Comicbooks onto the high street .

The Supermation SEASTAR 5 Comicbooks are now available across Lancashire , England  in five outlets so far - Lancaster - Preston - St.Annes on Sea - Blackburn .

In the AmazonStore UK we have the printed paperback Book Edition now available , together with a "download' edition as well on Amazon Kindle Readers .

The second book in the SEASTAR 5 Series is now in production for a release soon .

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 currently 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 movies are currently in production with live action filming and special effects work being carried out in England during 2023 and 2024 .

Live action filming starts in July 2024 in England .

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 .

THE FOLLOWING COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND NOW HAVE THE SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS COMICBOOK SERIES IN STOCK........

Please explore the rest of the RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIO'S website to see some more amazing images now.