ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY DESIGN AND MINIATURE SET CREATIONS FOR THE TOY INDUSTRY

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

This present website for my work has received over 320,000 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 .....

     IN 2026....OUR LATEST WORK WITH NEW SCI-FI CREATIONS FOR SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM.......

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - THE SERIES....BOOK ONE NOW IN THE AMAZONSTORE AND COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND.....ALSO AT "STORYTELLERS INC" BOOKSTORE ST.ANNES ON SEA LANCASHIRE .

BOOK TWO PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA NOW IN PRODUCTION FOR A RELEASE ACROSS ENGLAND THIS SUMMER 2026 DON'T MISS IT....ALIEN INVADERS BEGIN THE INVASION FROM THE OCEANS......

BOOK THREE OF SEASTAR 5 - SEAFIGHTER STARTS PRODUCTION FOR A RELEASE IN 2027..........

MINIATURE  SET DESIGNS BY RICHARD DIXON - ART DIRECTION BY MAT DIXON TPD STUDIOS UK

BRIDGE SET - SEASTAR 5 INTERIOR - PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODEL SET PRODUCTION DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON - ART DIRECTION MAT DIXON - CREATED AT TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND

THIS IS PART ONE TO FIVE OF AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON FACEBOOK JANUARY 2026....RICHARD DIXON ACTION MAN PHOTOSTORIES ADVENTURES .

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 NOW 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 320,000 views.....

Thankyou all for looking in on our work we really appreciate  you following what we create .

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 over the thirty five years my Studios worked for Companies across the Children's Media and the UK Toy Industry.

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 working across seven of my production studios based in the northwest of England , 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 .

I also created two pilot fully storyboarded supermation ideas with sample photography during this period . 

THE BRATZ PHOTOSTORY PIRATES ADVENTURE....and "BATTLE FOR ETERNIA" a stop motion style MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE PHOTOSTORY PILOT  .

These two productions did not go through to production as both magazines for these products were cancelled by the Publishing Companies at the time....just weeks before the two productions were due to be filmed....they would have been something to see if they had been made......

However a lot of the preparations work was then regrouped and I started writing again...after seeing some old TV episodes of Stingray , Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and James Cameron's THE ABYSS movie my ideas started to go towards the creation of an undersea adventure idea.....people from under the sea living there from Earth's past in secret.....

 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 21 CENTURY 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 SERIES .

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

In our first magazine release special....we are also looking at showing for the first time the complete initial chapter for MAGNUS JONES STARCOMMANDO.....our 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 .

Thanks for reading my History Career in the Media Business .

RICHARD DIXON 

TPD STUDIOS UK .

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .          

RICHARD DIXON

SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .

STARTING THIS MONTH ON THE STUDIO HOME PAGE WE ARE SHOWING TWO ACTION MAN PHOTOSTORY STYLE ADVENTURES WE MADE FOR MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK - HASBRO TOYS UK.....

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY SEEING THESE.......

This story is copywrite MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK - HASBRO TOYS _ 3D LICENSING UK .

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 .

THIS WAS THE THIRD ACTION MAN PHOTOSTORY ADVENTURE.......