This site features my work from 1985 to the present day in Children's Media , Comics and Magazines together with Toy Industry Product Photography , Advertising Toy Photography , Supermation RetroArt Images , Miniature Set Design for Exhibitions and Displays ,
Feature Film Miniature Production Design and lots more from my Studio .
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Above images....The hardback SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS......
.................Supermation Picture StoryBook....First Edition........Available from the Studio.......
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE RELEASE OF SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS....PLEASE CONTACT THE STUDIO FOR RELEASE DATES ON AMAZON KINDLE .
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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 different sizes at various times all based in and around Blackpool and 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 190,000 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 inspired by the original story concept has now been created in a supermation images retroart adventure format .
It will appear on the Amazon Kindle digital download platform in a few weeks time with the first storybook release of the undersea saga .
The remaining parts of the Supermation SEASTAR 5 Adventure Series will release a further five storybooks over this year and into 2024 on the same Amazon platform to complete the undersea saga.
I have 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 Children's Anime Supermation Story Book creation of "STEAMBOAT JACK" which is in production development for 2024 .
If you have a project and would like a quote for advertising product photography , model making set design or miniature production design in a movie , please email the studio we would love to hear from you .
Thanks for reading my history......
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS UK .
Studio E/mail address......
tpdnorthwest@outlook.com
Supermation RetroArt Image.....Digital Artwork by Lee Richardson , Lancaster , England .
Model Miniature Design by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS .
SEA MOBILE DRILLING PLATFORM.....FROM SEASTASR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - STORYBOOK 4 A RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS - FULLY ILLUSTRATED IN SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGES .
SEASTAR 5 STORYBOOK 4 IS CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION FOR A 2024 RELEASE ON AMAZON KINDLE .
IMAGE BELOW.....STORM ACTION FIGURE......FROM MARVEL COMICS ....THE X-MEN
PHOTOGRAPHY AND SET DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS .
PHOTOGRAPHY AND SET DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE UK
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MINIATURE LANDSCAPE DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON - LARA CROFT COMIC - PANINI COMICS AND MARVEL COMICS UK .
A RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS PRODUCTION .......
A SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY STORYBOOK CREATION IN SUPERMATION RETRO IMAGES ARRIVING 2024 , CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT .
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Supermation RetroArt image design by Richard Dixon 2021 .
Welcome to a preview image for " STEAMBOAT JACK "....
A ANIME Supermation Sci-fi Fantasy action adventure storybook series now in creation development .
Written and Created by Richard Dixon 2021 .
Based on my original television Animation Pilot story concept for BBC TELEVISION in 2021 this latest expanded version of the story has now moved forward into a full SUPERMATION RETRO IMAGES STORYBOOK SCI-FI FANTASY adventure storybook presentation release for 2024 .
More details on this new Anime Supermation fantasy sci-fi story will be released to the website in 2023 .
The original space control room Puppet Set...."JIFF FRUITS CINEMA COMMERCIAL"....
GERRY ANDERSON SPACE CITY EXHIBITION , BLACKPOOL 1970's .PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON .
GERRY ANDERSON'S STARCRUISER.....Original model built by top model maker Martin Bower .
The HAWK....Space Fighter / Interceptor....from Gerry Anderson's Space 1999 Tv Series....Original Space miniature photographed on a Richard Dixon Model Landscape in the early 1980's .
Image Below.....The original Moonbase Alpha Base model and moon landscape set....
Photography by Richard Dixon for ITC / EMI Exhibitions in the 1970's .
GERRY ANDERSON'S "THUNDERBIRDS"....
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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 .
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"SKY ONE". INTERCEPTOR from Gerry Anderson's UFO TV Series....The original studio miniature .
Photography by Richard Dixon / EMI / ITC EXHIBITIONS .
The Tales of Sinbad the Sailor.....a Re-imagined Supermation Story Book Series based on the Arabian Nights Stories of Sinbad created and designed by Richard Dixon's TPD STUDIO's....2019 - 2020 .
SCI-FI ACTION ADVENTURE STORYBOOK SERIES IN SUPERMATION IMAGES.....CREATED AND DESIGNED BY RICHARD DIXON.....A TPD STUDIOS PRODUCTION IN DEVELOPMENT . DUE 2024 .
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A SELECTION OF MY PHOTOGRAPHY WORK CREATED FROM MANY YEARS WORKING ACROSS THE TOY INDUSTRY AND CHILDREN'S COMICS / MAGAZINES IN ENGLAND .
THE MAJORITY OF THE WORK FEATURED HERE WAS DONE AT MY STUDIO BASED NEAR BLACKPOOL , LANCASHIRE ON THE FYLDE NORTHWEST COASTLINE OF ENGLAND .
When the BRATZ were launched in the UK , Titan Magazines asked me to come on board and create photography with model sets for their Bratz Magazine . I worked over a period of six months to create a selection of images for covers and posters in the monthly magazine published in London with the full co-operation of MGA TOYS USA .
I created a selection of magazine feature style images of the full range of MASK Toys , together with some animated promotional film items toward the end of the MASK Toys in their final years on sale . These images were featured in some newspaper articles in the north west of England .
In the GI JOE and ACTION FORCE Toy Ranges launched in the UK by Hasbro Toys my photography and model set designs were used for advertising images which appeared in the Children's Comics published across the UK in the nineteen nineties .
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RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS
LANCASHIRE
ENGLAND .
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