SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS

A RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS PRODUCTION - UNDERSEA ACTION ADVENTURE SERIES IN TWELVE EPISODES OF SUPERMATION PHOTOSTORY IMAGERY......

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" THE BRATZ IN WINTER WONDERLAND " ....SUPERMATION PHOTO POSTER CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON FOR TITAN PUBLISHING AND MGA TOYS USA......

My work career in visual media started in 1970  following a College Photography Course which took me into Commercial Photography , Entertainment Industry Photography in Theatres , Wedding and Portrait Photography , Motor Sport Photography of Formula One - Formula Two -Touring Cars....and Advertising Product Studio Photography .

I entered the World of Toy Photography in 1988 and added Children's Comics and Magazines  to my work in the following years .

Over the next thirty three years my work in the Toy Industry , Children's Comics Photographic Illustration.....and now in the TV and Film Industry with Miniature Set Production Design and Model Making....has taken my visual media work across England , Europe , United States of America and around the world .

I set this website up in 2016 to showcase my visual media work and it has now received over 150,000 viewers , with over 2500 visitors  to the site each month looking in on my latest supermation imagery .

My Toy Industry Advertising work has featured across many leading products over the years.......

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  - 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  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 .

My 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 , 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....together with many more....

My SUPERMATION PHOTOSTORIES created at my studios in Lancashire , England have been featured in UK Film - TV Media Magazine "INFINITY" in three Editions .

The American website " Animation World " , the UK websites " Moonbase Central - Projectswordtoys " ,  " Small Scale World Blogspot " , " BBC Radio Lancashire Website " have all featured my original Photostory Series "SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS . The Children's undersea adventure series of twelve episodes has also been featured on a further twenty media sites across the web in the last five years........

In 2021 I have now released preview images for a sequel to the series with "SEASTAR 5 UNDERSEA EMPIRE" a Supermation Format feature story now available to be viewed on the website .

In 2020 I entered the UK Film Industry for the first time to design and create the miniature spacecraft models for a new British Sci-Fi Feature Film being produced by Simon Cox called "Of Infinite Worlds".

This exciting movie currently being created in England will once again show my modelwork visual designs to a world wide audience .

My work on the movie has been recently featured in the "Evening Gazette " newspaper in the northwest of England and more images will appear here very soon .

More spaceship miniatures imagery from the movie can be seen on the website "OF INFINITE WORLDS - HOME PAGE "....just put it into Google to be amazed at what is coming soon.....

New work on my future SUPERMATION PRODUCTIONS is arriving this year on this website for " MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS ",  "STEAMBOAT JACK " and "PIRATES OF THE GALAXY " .

Preview images for these new productions will appear on the site in 2022......

ACTION FIGURE IMAGES IN SUPERMATION.......

TPD STUDIOS ONLINE STUDIO SHOP PHOTOGRAPHY.....

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - TOONTASTIC COMICS - MATTEL TOYS UK......

IMAGE ABOVE....BLUEBIRD TOYS " MIGHTY MAX ADVERTISEMENT " 1994.....

- ARGOS CATALOGUE....SUPERMATION PHOTOGRAPHY DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON .

" MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS "

CHILDREN'S SCI-FI SUPERMATION ADVENTURE CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON 2020 .

PRODUCTION IMAGE / CY MEC 7 ROBO RANGER TROOPER - WITH SKYJET BIKE .

PRODUCTION DESIGN CREATION IN THE STUDIO BY RICHARD DIXON 2020-2021 .

SEASTAR 5 UNDERSEA EMPIRE POSTER .....CREATED BY CONNOR MAGILL - DIGITAL ARTIST NORTHERN IRELAND . SEASTAR 5 SUBMARINE MINIATURE CREATION DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON .

SEASTAR 5 UNDERSEA EMPIRE - RICHARD DIXON COPYWRITE 2021 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED .

CREATED AND WRITTEN BY RICHARD DIXON

PHOTOGRAPHY , MINIATURES AND MODEL LANDSCAPE SETS  DESIGNED AND BUILT BY RICHARD DIXON AT TPD STUDIOS - LANCASHIRE UK .

SPECIAL CGI / PHOTOGRAPHY EFFECTS BY CONNOR MAGILL - NORTHERN IRELAND DIGITAL ARTIST

SPECIAL CGI PHOTO EFFECTS BY LEE RICHARDSON - DIGITAL ARTIST - LANCASTER - ENGLAND .

SEASTAR 5 UNDERSEA EMPIRE - SUPERMATION PRODUCTION MADE AT TPD STUDIOS ENGLAND .

IMAGES FROM SIMON COX'S FEATURE FILM NOW IN PRODUCTION ......" OF INFINITE WORLDS "

THE  EARTH  SPACE  SHUTTLE  CRAFT  " MONTANA "

ORIGINAL  CONCEPT  DESIGN  AND  MODEL  BUILD  BY  RICHARD  DIXON  TPD  STUDIOS  UK   2020 .

EFFECTS  WITH  " UNREAL  ENGINE "  4K FILM PROCESS SYSTEM .

"  OF  INFINITE  WORLDS " SCIENCE FICTION FEATURE FILM 

PRODUCED BY SIMON COX  - ENGLAND 2021- 2022 .

THE  SPACE  SUPPLY  PLATFORM  SHIP " SARATOGA ''.

MINIATURE  CONCEPT  DESIGN  WITH  DISPLAY  PHOTOGRAPHY  BY  RICHARD  DIXON  TPD  STUDIOS  UK   2020 .

More news and images from  " OF  INFINITE  WORLDS " coming soon.........don't miss them.....

GERRY ANDERSON'S INTERGALACTIC RESCUE....

JIFF FRUITS CINEMA COMMERCIAL 1978.....ORIGINAL STUDIO MODEL SET

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON - GERRY ANDERSON SPACE CITY EXHIBITION - BLACKPOOL .

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MOONBASE ALPHA ORIGINAL STUDIO MODEL SET FROM GERRY ANDERSON'S "SPACE 1999" TV SERIES....

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON IN THE STUDIO .

LADY PENELOPE  FROM THUNDERBIRDS TV SERIES.....ORIGINAL STUDIO PUPPET

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON

GERRY ANDERSON SPACE CITY EXHIBITION - BLACKPOOL ...1970's .

LADY PENELOPE'S  ROLLS ROYCE FAB 1.......THE PUPPET SIZED VEHICLE  CREATED FOR THE

" THUNDERBIRDS TV SERIES " . PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON .

GERRY ANDERSON SPACE CITY EXHIBITION - BLACKPOOL  1970's .

STARCRUISER ......ORIGINAL STUDIO MINIATURE CREATED BY FILM AND TV MODELMAKER MARTIN BOWER .

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON

GERRY ANDERSON SPACE CITY EXHIBITION BLACKPOOL .

These images from Gerry Anderson's Space City Exhibition from the nineteen seventies were part of a photoshoot  I was commissioned to do with over sixty images taken for publicity purposes for EMI / ITC in Blackpool , Lancashire  .

STEAMBOAT JACK . COM

COPYWRITE RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS 2021 

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STEAMBOAT JACK CHARACTER CONCEPT IMAGERY FROM RICHARD DIXON .

STEAMBOAT JACK - A RICHARD DIXON SUPERMATION PRODUCTION TPD STUDIOS 2021

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"  JUNGLE  RIVER  ADVENTURES  CREATED ON MINIATURE STUDIO LOCATIONS .

PRODUCTION MINIATURE SET DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON FOR STEAMBOAT  JACK  "

STEAMBOAT JACK STYLE GUIDE CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION TOGETHER WITH PREVIEW IMAGES FOR THE PILOT EPISODE STORY ARRIVING IN MARCH 2022 ON THE WEBSITE .

ONCE  UPON  A  TIME  IN  A  GALAXY  FAR  ACROSS  THE  UNIVERSE ....

A new swashbuckling tale of a pirate style adventure in a science fiction story setting is currently being written by visual storyteller Richard Dixon .

Production on this new Children's Sci-Fi Adventure at TPD STUDIOS UK......starts in 2022 .

A fully illustrated style guide book and preview images to the series are currently in production .

RICHARD  DIXON'S  SEASTAR 5  INVADERS  FROM  THE  ABYSS.....

Adventures of a super submarine and her crew of Aquanauts in the undersea world of the 21st Century......Illustrated in Supermation Imagery in a twelve episode serialized story.....the concept format is created using miniatures , stop motion photography techniques and photo CGI effects in an original Photostory format , written and designed by visual storyteller Richard Dixon .

The production was created to show the visual story possibilities of a story idea that could be developed into a full style production in animation , picture book or a film format .

Its a fully illustrated script concept.....with miniatures all built and original character figures created.

Please check out the " site menu " at the bottom of this page to access the twelve episodes of undersea sci-fi adventures .

Its appeared on BBC Radio Lancashire web site together with over twenty other web sites including "ANIMATION WORLD " a leading web site in Hollywood USA .

A new sequel feature length photostory production " SEASTAR 5 UNDERSEA  EMPIRE " has now been created with preview images for this new release now showing on this website.....please check out the "UNDERSEA EMPIRE" page now.....its awesome to view...

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS and its new sequel feature length production SEASTAR 5 UNDERSEA EMPIRE are both created and designed by Richard Dixon in SUPERMATION at TPD STUDIOS , Lancashire UK .

CGI DIGITAL ART EFFECTS for both productions are created by CONNOR MAGILL , Northern Ireland Digital Artist and Lee Richardson Digital Artist from Lancaster , England .

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" LOWER VAULT - SAFE DEPOSIT AREA.....SECOND NATIONAL SECURITIES BUILDING NEW YORK MEGA ISLAND CITY....DR ANUBAR MAKES HIS ENTRANCE ON HIS QUEST TO ROB THE VAULT ".....

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A SCENE FROM RICHARD DIXON'S " MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS ".....

DR ANUBER'S HYPER WARPER JUMP CRUISER......CREATED AND DESIGNED BY RICHARD DIXON .

PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART DIRECTION BY RICHARD DIXON .

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RICHARD DIXON ON SET...."SEASTAR 5 - THE SERIES........LAVELLE MARINE LAB - OMELEK ISLAND - PACIFIC OCEAN - MINIATURE MODEL LOCATION LANDSCAPE - TPD STUDIOS - STUDIO 3 .

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ZERO HOUR TOYS....TRADE ADVERTISING POSTER....BLUEBIRD TOYS....MATTEL TOYS USA....

PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODEL DISPLAY SET DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON ....1990 / 1991 .

RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS

LANCASHIRE 

ENGLAND .

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