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SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS.....
A new sci-fi adventure storybook series created and designed by Advertising Toy Industry Photographer Richard Dixon arrives in 2023 .
A fifteen part underwater saga in a serialized story format has been written in a fully illustrated SUPERMATION RETRO ART STYLE IMAGES format presentation which is being released in book
form .
I intend to release the first three books in the series in 2023 , with the first book release " STRANGE ENCOUNTER " due to arrive in January 2023 on the AMAZON KINDLE platform....
The other two storybook releases , SEASTAR 5 BOOK TWO , PRINCESS OF LEMURIA and BOOK THREE , RESCUE FROM LEMURIA should arrive before the end of next year .
The remaining parts to this new underwater saga will arrive in 2024 .
A YouTube promo video trailer will be released to support the First Book Release in January 2023 .
Media Press Information and Press Packs available DECEMBER 2022 from the studio......
......order yours at "tpdnorthwest@outlook.com" .
SEASTAR 5 THE SERIES , CREATION AND PRODUCTION DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON .
SEASTAR 5 LOGO - TYPOGRAPHY DESIGN BY LEANNE MANSFIELD , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
ALL SUPERMATION IMAGES PHOTOGRAPHY AND RETROART STYLE DESIGN CREATIONS
BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS .
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR ALL SEASTAR 5 BOOKS.... RICHARD DIXON
SEASTAR 5 VISUAL EFFECTS DESIGNERS - CONNOR MAGILL - LEE RICHARDSON - AL KENT
VISUAL EFFECTS LEMURIA MONSTER MODEL ANIMATION DESIGNER - PETER MONTGOMERY .
SEASTAR 5 IS A RICHARD DIXON PRODUCTION COPYWRITE 2012 .
TPD STUDIOS SUPERMATION IMAGES PRODUCTION 2021 - 2022 .
MADE IN BLACKPOOL , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
SEASTAR 5 LANDSCAPE LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHY....ISLAND OF MAURITIUS .
ADDITIONAL BEACH LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY - CLEVELEYS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
My work career in visual media started in 1970 when I created RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY following a College Photography Course in Blackpool , Lancashire , England .
My photography in my early years covered work across all of the following , 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 with the setting up of the TOY PHOTO DESIGN STUDIO BRAND in the following years , which
eventually became my operating media brand today of RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS .
Over the next thirty three 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 various
sizes all based in and around Blackpool / Preston , Lancashire , England .
Today my Brand " RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS" , Photography , Miniature Set Production Design and Model Making is still designed and created in the north west of England , at a number of studio
locations where my current productions are based which I hire when studio space is required .
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 studio website has now received over 185,000 viewers , with over 2000 visitors to the site each month looking in on my latest work creations .
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 - 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....together with 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 , following a pilot production photostory called SEASTAR ONE .
This work was featured in UK Film - TV Media Magazine "INFINITY" in three separate Editions and on their magazine website since 2017 .
More write ups with illustrations followed and appeared on the American website " Animation World " , the UK websites " Moonbase Central - Projectswordtoys " , " Small Scale World Blogspot "
, " BBC Radio Lancashire Website " .
These all featured my original Photostory Series Concept "SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS .
The original model animation work on the series was done at TPD STUDIOS in Lancashire at a number of studio locations .
We also carried out extensive beach photography for the series at Cleveleys Beach near Blackpool in Lancashire .
The same Cleveleys Beach which was used for the new STAR WARS DISNEY + TV SERIES ANDOR used for its locations in 2021.....
My SEASTAR 5 STORYBOOK SERIES was there first from 2014 to 2016 to film beach scenes for the fifteen parts for SEASTAR 5 story series I created in 2012 .
More locations for SEASTAR 5 were used on the Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius , including beach scenes and other landscapes which formed background images for the series .
The undersea sci-fi fantasy adventure series has also been featured since 2016 on a further twenty media sites across the web in a promotional model animation presentation version .
In 2022 a new version of SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS has now been created in a supermation images retro adventure format , inspired by the original written concept story series that
was made back in 2012 with a fully re-written and visual retro art illustrated version .
The new version will appear on the Amazon Kindle digital download platform in 2023 with the first part of the undersea saga .
The remaining parts of the Supermation SEASTAR 5 Adventure Series will release over the coming months into 2024 and beyond on the same Amazon platform
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 finally achieved a childhood dream of one day 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 2022 and 2023 .
Preview images for some of these miniatures can now be viewed on this website .
My studio continues to create Advertising Product Photography for the Toy Industry together with my Supermation Photography Story Book Creations at my studio centre in the north west of England
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If you have a project and would like a quote for advertising product photography , please email the studio .
Thanks for reading my history......
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS UK .
Studio E/mail address......
tpdnorthwest@outlook.com
MASK THUNDERHAWK - KENNER TOYS UK 1988-1989
My very first Toy Industry Photography Image.....a small four foot square baseboard , a realistic painted background created for me by Blackpool Artist Sheila Burnett....
......My entry to the Toy Industry in 1988 was about to begin....a journey from then till now across ......
TOY PHOTOGRAPHY , CHILDREN'S COMICS , FILM MINIATURES , PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR ADVERTISING SETS and a whole lot more......
......................with CHILDREN'S STORY BOOKS IN SUPERMATION COMING IN 2023.......
GERRY ANDERSON'S "THUNDERBIRDS"....
Above.....
Original puppet , LADY PENELOPE
Original puppet , PARKER.....
THUNDERBIRDS TV SERIES .
The original puppet sized studio model of Lady Penelope's Rolls Royce from the 1960's TV Series .
Photography by Richard Dixon / EMI/ITC EXHIBITIONS .
Image below...
"SKY ONE". INTERCEPTOR from Gerry Anderson's UFO TV Series....The original studio miniature .
Photography by Richard Dixon / EMI / ITC EXHIBITIONS .
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