IMAGE / " MAGNUS  JONES  AND  THE  STARJET  RANGERS " /  CREATED  BY  RICHARD  DIXON .

NOW  IN  PRODUCTION  AT  TPD  STUDIOS  LANCASHIRE  ENGLAND .

" THE  BRATZ  " FROM  MGA  TOYS  USA.....

HALLOWEEN  HAUNTED  HOUSE  MODEL  SET 

CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON .

TITAN  PUBLISHING  -  BRATZ  MAGAZINE .

RICHARD  DIXON  ON  THE  SET  FOR  STARKEY  BASE  FROM  " SEASTAR 5  INVADERS  FROM  THE  ABYSS "  SUPERMATION  PHOTO  STORY  SERIES .

Richard Dixon's TPD STUDIOS .....

Now on the YouTube Channel with my cinematic first promotional video TRAILER for SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS from MAY 6  2021.....

Please check it out AT "RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS" on YouTube .

We also have three further videos of my work now showing on YouTube at "RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS"

PLAYLIST for Richard Dixon .

In preparation is a new video for "SINBAD GOLD RAIDER HEROES" arriving in the next few days .

More videos appearing soon.....please continue to watch this site for new releases .

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS.....THE SERIES .....

Please go to the site map at the bottom of this page to access the menu for the series .

TO  CONTACT  THE  STUDIO.....

 PLEASE  E/MAIL  RICHARD  DIXON....

tpdnorthwest@outlook.com

MAGNUS JONES STARJET RANGERS 

A RICHARD DIXON PRODUCTION 

TPD STUDIOS PRODUCTION 2021

A new Science Fiction PhotoStory Series in production being made in the Supermation Format in the UK .

" THE BRATZ " PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON / TITAN MAGAZINE PUBLISHING - UK .

RICHARD  DIXON'S  TOY  PHOTO  DESIGN  STUDIO......

WE  MAKE  TOYS  AND  A  WHOLE  LOT  MORE  LOOK  GOOD  IN  PICTURES.....

MY   PRODUCTION   WORK   HAS   APPEARED   IN   THE   PROMOTION   OF   TOY   INDUSTRY   PRODUCTS  AND  CHILDREN'S   PUBLISHING   PROJECTS   OVER   THE   LAST   THIRTY   THREE  YEARS....

ON  THIS  WEB  SITE  YOU  WILL  FIND  MANY  IMAGES  THAT  I  HAVE  DESIGNED  AND  CREATED THROUGHOUT  MY  CAREER  IN  THE  STUDIO  AND  ON  LOCATION .

ACTION MAN PHOTO STORY MAGAZINE SPECIALS.....

Fifteen Photo Story Supermation Adventures selling over 700,000 magazines for Marvel Comics UK / Panini Comics UK .

Over sixty photo action full colour covers for Action Man Comic.....

Dozens of full page posters and competition pages created for Action Man Comic.....

A best selling Action Man Greetings Card Range for Gemma Cards .

With individual colour supermation Action Man figures in seven scenes .

Pedigree Books Action Man Annual Covers and Posters Photography .

SEASTAR 5  INVADERS  FROM  THE  ABYSS.....

A web comic supermation action photo story style , twelve episode series with over 125,000 viewers .

A sci-fi story of incredible adventure from the bottom of the sea .

SEASTAR 5 is available to Publishers in the UK and USA .

Please contact the studio for more details 

at our email address....tpdnorthwest@outlook.com

SINBAD  GOLD  RAIDER  HEROES.....

A new re-imagined short photo story adventure created in a supermation style based on the old Arabian Knights Tale of "Sinbad the Sailor" .

Preview images from the story now on show on the web site .

This adventure childrens story in supermation imagery is currently available to Publishers , please contact us for more details at ....tpdnorthwest@outlook.com 

NEW IN ...2021.....

MAGNUS  JONES  AND  THE  STARJET  RANGERS......

A new serialized type of sci-fi action adventure storytelling for todays children .

The concept production is a fully illustrated supermation photo story with digital imagery format which is set on a future Earth in a Mega Island New York City.....

Before the adventure story moves forward to the other side of the Universe .

On the planet of DUNARIA in a distant Galaxy , New York Police Officer Magnus Jones will join the Starjet Rangers Command and find himself as a stranger in a strange land .

A new Lawman on an alien world with no known way back to his own planet and time .

Our adventure begins on this website this year with the first episode due for release in December.....

Preview images are available to view on the Home Page and also now on the dedicated page " MAGNUS  JONES  STARJET  RANGERS ' which can be found on the site menu .

NEW FOR 2022 - 2023.....

" GALACTIC  STAR  RESCUE " .....

A  new  sci-fi  children's  story  of  adventure  set  in  the  22nd  Century.....

Hyper  Space  action  with  a  brave  rescue  team  of  Astronauts  aboard  InterGalaxy  Rescue  Cruiser  GSR5 .

Now  being  created  by  Richard  Dixon  in  the  north  of  England  in  a  Supermation  PhotoStory  format  to arrive  on  this  web  site  in  2022 .

A fully illustrated promotional brochure will be available for Publishers and Media Companies from the studio in spring 2022 ......

galacticstarrescue.co.uk.

To contact Richard Dixon at TPDSTUDIOS , Lancashire , England.....please send an email to the following address....tpdnorthwest@outlook.com

CONCEPT  ART  PRODUCTION  POSTER  FOR  SIMON  COX'S  FEATURE  FILM  IN  PRODUCTION  IN  ENGLAND  "  OF  INFINITE  WORLDS   " .

https://www.ofinfiniteworlds.com

CALLING  EVERYONE  WHO  IS  INTERESTED  IN  SUPPORTING  INDEPENDENT  FILM  MAKERS.....

TO  SUPPORT  THE  MAKING  OF  A  NEW  SCI-FI  FILM  PRODUCTION  IN  THE  UK .

IT'S  CALLED  " OF  INFINITE  WORLDS ".....

PLEASE  BUY  A  MUG  AND  GET  YOUR  NAME  ON  THE  FILMS  CREDITS  AS  A  SUPPORTER  OF  THE MOVIE...

JUST  GO  TO  THE  WEBSITE  OF  THE  MOVIE  AT ....www.ofinfiniteworlds.com   

To make your purchase of official merchandise for this new film.....we need your support....please help us......

STUDIO IMAGE

 "OF INFINITE WORLDS "

BEHIND  THE  SCENES  IN  A  UK  MOVIE  STUDIO  -  WATFORD  ENGLAND  2020 .

The mothership " Victorious " being filmed in the studio for motion control effects sequences .

This image copywrite 2020 Simon Cox  Alpha Star Productions - " OF  INFINITE  WORLDS " all rights reserved .

Model miniature designed and created by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS - Lancashire , England .

Richard Dixon Model Miniatures Production Designer on " Of Infinite Worlds  " 2020 - 2021 .

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS.....The adventures of a super submarine and her crew of Aquanauts in the undersea world of the 21st Century......Illustrated in Supermation Imagery.....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 of twelve episodes in a photo story format was created to show the visual story possibilities with the story idea if developed into full production in animation , picture books or a film format .

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

.......a full production concept now available for interested companies to take further .

If you would like more information on this series please get in touch with us at the studio in England for a brochure or if you wish to talk about the production in more detail .

The production of  SEASTAR 5  INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS has now received over 126,000 viewers since the first completed episodes were released for public viewing in 2016 .

All twelve episodes can be seen on this web site , fully photo illustrated......just check out the menu site map at the bottom of the page .

The Children's Photo Story Series has received two articles in UK Magazine "INFINITY".....

and also featured on the magazine's  web site.....

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 .

SEASTAR 5  PRODUCTION  CREDITS.....

PRODUCED  AND  CREATED  BY  RICHARD  DIXON

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

RICHARD  DIXON  -  LANCASHIRE  ENGLAND

CONNOR  MAGILL  -  NORTHERN  IRELAND

LEE  RICHARDSON  -  LANCASTER  ENGLAND 

AL  KENT  -  LANCASHIRE  ENGLAND

IMMORTAL  GRAPHICS  USA

FLYING  MONSTER  INSECT CREATION  BY  PETER  MONTGOMERY -  HELENSBURGH   SCOTLAND .

SEASTAR 5  MADE  AT  RICHARD  DIXON'S  TPD  STUDIOS  LANCASHIRE  UK 

LOCATION  PHOTOGRAPHY  -  MAURITIUS  /  INDIAN  OCEAN

Model landscape creation by Richard Dixon for his new sci-fi photostory series....." MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS ", all sets designed and built at TPD STUDIOS in the UK.

MAGNUS  JONES  STARJET  RANGERS  SLIDESHOW.....

ENTER  OUR  NEW  PRODUCTION  TO  SEE  THE  LATEST  IMAGES .....

PLEASE  RE-VISIT  MY  WEB  SITE  OVER  THE  COMING  MONTHS  TO  SEE  MORE  IMAGES  FROM  THIS  NEW  SERIALIZED  DIGITAL  SCI-FI  SUPERMATION  PHOTOSTORY  SERIES....

THANK  YOU  FOR  LOOKING  IN  ON  MY  LATEST  PROJECT.....

Richard Dixon / TPD STUDIOS / Lancashire / England .

MAGNUS   JONES   ON  THE  STREETS  OF  NEW  YORK  MEGA  ISLAND  CITY .....EAST  SIXTH  DISTRICT - BABYLON  VILLAGE.....

With any story ....there is a begining .

This is my story and the creation of Richard Dixon Toy Photo Design Studio .

My creative career in the UK Toy Industry and Children's Publishing really started when I decided to take my work into a completely new direction .

Following nineteen years of photography work which started in 1970 in the north west of England .

I worked on Portraits , Weddings , Theatre Entertainment Photography and General Advertising work for Trust House Forte - Entam Ltd - EMI - FIRST LEISURE CORPORATION - ODEON CINEMAS .

I made the move into the Toy Industry and Children's Comics in 1989 and began building my studio and Brand...TOY PHOTO DESIGN STUDIO in Lancashire , England .

This new direction for me over the next thirty three years would use my creative talents and imagination across many areas of the Toy Industry , Children's Publishing Projects and the Greetings Card Industry .

I have worked with many Companies over these years.....with big and small projects.....the list of the Companies and the Products are endless...many I don't remember now ....they were extremely busy times.......some of the work no longer exists in my archives.....but here are some of the highlights from those years .

Kenner Toys - Bluebird Toys - Hasbro Toys - Mattel Toys - Marvel Comics - Panini Comics - Titan Comics - MGA Toys USA  - Toontastic Comics - Cartoon Network Comic - Warner Bros Looney Toons - Gemma Cards - Pedigree Books  and many more......

In my early years I have also talked and presented my work to some of the great past creators of miniature work in the UK .

GERRY ANDERSON and RAY HARRYHAUSEN gave me good advice on the directions I should follow with my creative work when I talked with them in the early nineteen eighties .

I also received a lot of guidance from British TV Producer Mark Hall of Cosgrove Hall Productions who invited me to his studios in Manchester .

Mark took an interest in my early miniature photography creations and allowed me to visit the studios to see behind the scenes model set constructions being created , together with the puppet sequences being filmed for

" Wind in the Willows " , " Cinderella " ,  " Pied Piper of Hamlin ".

I also saw the cartoon productions of " Count Dukula and Danger Mouse " being made at the studios as well .

These visits I found very helpful and applied the knowledge that I learned from Mark and his people to my own creations in my early toy advertising work in the eighties and nineties . 

Along the way my work gradually improved using the model animation techniques that I had learned and now was applying to my work .

My first big presentation in the Toy Industry started in 1988 would see my photography illustrate M.A.S.K , the children's toy range from Kenner Toys . My images appeared in three newspaper articles in the north west of England .

These first "supermation images" were shown to Kenner Toys Marketing Director for the UK and Europe....and my new style of work was begining to be noticed as it stood out from other work with a realistic approach that had not been applied to toy photography to any great extent at the time .

MASK took me to Saachi and Saachi with a presentation of concept supermation toy work for " ROBIN HOOD PRINCE OF THIEVES " toy range based on the Kevin Costner Movie  .

The work for Robin Hood I had created looked impressive , but my style of presentation for the range for Europe did not go forward .

The American advertising for the product eventually being chosen to be used instead , because the budget which had been mostly used initially on launching in America would not cover a separate new campaign with my designs for the European market . 

I had to wait for the following year for my photography designs to make a breakthrough in the world of toy advertising .

The success I had worked for so long came on two fronts within weeks of each other .

Two of the biggest companies in the UK Toy Industry selected my work to advertise their campaigns .

BLUEBIRD TOYS " ZERO HOUR " and HASBRO TOYS " ACTION FORCE GI JOE " ranges would take my work to the top level . 

My work was now appearing across all UK Comics with advertisements , Trade Brochures and Model Exhibition Display sets at UK Toy Fairs during the months of November and December 1990 .

Into 1991 the success continued with the UK Toy Fair in London with a huge model set display for "ZERO HOUR TOYS" and more images in the Comics with advertisements . More Companies started taking my work style on board for their product advertising .

Production expanded across the country....TOY PHOTO DESIGN STUDIO was go !!

The breakthrough for me that I had searched for had started....

I did not start at the bottom of this industry , but was lucky to go in at the top  level with two very successful campaigns from the begining ....showing what I could achieve with realistic model supermation techniques for advertising imagery .

My new ways of doing toy advertising pictures had opened up a whole new career for me .

Over the following years some of the biggest toy brands have featured my work at some time ....Mighty Max ,....Masters of the Universe.....Power Rangers .....and then Marvel Comics / Panini Comics called me about working on Action Man with Hasbro Toys , this would take me on an eight year journey and provide me with a fantastic showcase for my work across England and internationally...

More Publishers started taking my work with Toontastic Comics , Cartoon Network Comic and Looney Toons Comic from Warner Bros and many more showing my visual creations .

Then "The Bratz" arrived in my studio from Titan Books Publishing in the UK......another six months production with the girl's brand from the USA with MGA Toys , giving me the opportunity to create another successful visual experience for toy photography images from my studio across the country .

My work life just got better and more enjoyable over the years.....and the rest is history as they say.....

My career has continued to this day in the Industry that has been a big part of my life over all those past years .

Since my early days some of the best products in the Toy Industry Business have passed through my studios over the years .

ACTION MAN - THE BRATZ - MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - GI JOE ACTION FORCE - LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - TRANSFORMERS - BUTT UGLY MARTIANS - POWER RANGERS - QUAKE 2 - MASK - MEGA FORCE - MANTA FORCE - MIGHTY MAX - BETTY SPAGHETTI - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - SPIDERMAN - DIGIMON .....and dozens more....

My Photo-Story Productions have now been released to join my Toy Industry work and Children's Publishing Projects on this site.

SEASTAR 5  a twelve episode story series with all episodes available to view on this web site has received over 126,000 viewers for this undersea adventure story concept since I first released the initial episodes here in 2016 .

The second production photo story release of my studio , SINBAD GOLD RAIDER HEROES a re-style re-imagination of the old Arabian Knights stories also previews on this web site as well . This production was created with a full story with images and the intention is to possibly release a picture book in due course .

We now arrive in 2021 with my latest studio creative work with a new concept serialized sci-fi adventure photo story series .

" MAGNUS JONES STARJET RANGERS " first episode is currently in production with the first images now on view with the completed first story episode release due later in the year .

I am also working on a new British Sci-Fi feature film called " OF INFINITE WORLDS " over the next months  with UK Producer Simon Cox as a Production Designer of sci-fi spacecraft miniatures for his film production .

Model miniature construction was started last year and will continue through the coming months of 2021 . 

Looking further ahead for 2022 - 2023 .

I'm writing a new Photostory concept " GALACTIC STAR RESCUE ".

A sci-fi supermation action photostory following the adventures of a Space Rescue Cruiser GSR5 and her crew of astronauts in the 22nd Century .

Its early yet in the concept creation stage , but I hope to release some images for it before the end of this year......

I really do appreciate you taking the time to visit my studio on line and view my work , please keep me on your radar as new pictures are added to the site on a regular basis .

If you wish to contact the studio please email me at.....tpdnorthwest@outlook.com

Richard Dixon 

TPD STUDIOS

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND . 2021 .

From the archives of Richard Dixon Photography - Toy Photo Design Studio - Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS 

WORKING  WITH  THE  ACTION  MAN  RANGE

RICHARD  DIXON  CREATED  OVER  SIXTY  COVER  IMAGES  FOR  ACTION  MAN  COMIC  AND  FIFTEEN PHOTOSTORY  ADVENTURES  FOR  ACTION  MAN  OVER  AN  EIGHT  YEAR  PERIOD  WITH  MARVEL COMICS  UK  /  PANINI  COMICS  UK .

MY  WORK  WITH  ACTION  MAN  TOY  RANGE  FOR  HASBRO  TOYS  ALSO  INCLUDED  ANNUAL COVERS  FOR  PEDIGREE  BOOKS  AND  A  SEVEN  CARD  RANGE  OF  GREETINGS  CARDS  FOR  GEMMA CARDS  DURING  MY  TIME  WORKING  ON  THE  PRODUCT .

SINBAD GOLD RAIDER HEROES.....

A Photo Story Book of the Adventures of Sinbad has been created using our supermation style of presentation for 2021....please contact the studio for more information .

SINBAD GOLD RAIDER HEROES....A RICHARD DIXON PRODUCTION .

Produced and Created by Richard Dixon in Supermation Digital Photography....

Design and Animation by Richard Dixon....

Special Digital Photo - Effects by Paul Bradley - BLACKPOOL  LANCASHIRE .

Flying Reptile Creature Stop Motion Model by Peter Montgomery - Helensburgh Scotland .

Sinbad Gold Raider Heroes Produced at TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE UK .

On Location Photography Glen Finnan Valley Scotland .

LADY  PENELOPE  /  THUNDERBIRDS  TV  SERIES  /  ORIGINAL  PUPPET  MINIATURE .

SPACE  1999  /  MOONBASE  ALPHA   /  ORIGINAL  STUDIO  MODEL  SET

INTERGALACTIC  RESCUE  -  JIFF  FRUITS  CINEMA  COMMERCIAL  .

SHOWN  WITH  THE  FIRST  " STAR  WARS "  MOVIE  IN  CINEMAS  .  

ORIGINAL  MODEL  PUPPET  SET  FOR  FILM  COMMERCIAL .

GERRY ANDERSON'S "STARCRUISER "......

ORIGINAL  STUDIO  MODEL  BUILT  BY  UK  MODEL  DESIGNER  MARTIN  BOWER

PHOTOGRAPHY  BY  RICHARD  DIXON / IMAGE  COPYWRITE  GERRY  ANDERSON  MARKETING - EMI /ITC  GERR Y ANDERSON  EXHIBITIONS .

DELTA  BEACON  SPACE  STATION  -  ORIGINAL  STUDIO  MODEL  -  FROM  GERRY  ANDERSON'S  " INTO INFINITY  MOVIE .

FAB 1 ....LADY  PENELOPE'S  ROLLS  ROYCE  /  ORIGINAL  PUPPET  SIZED  VERSION 

THUNDERBIRDS  TV  SERIES .

IMAGE  BELOW  /  SPACE  1999  -  HAWK  SPACECRAFT  -  ORIGINAL  STUDIO  MODEL 

MODEL  SET  LANDSCAPE  DISPLAY  CREATED  BY  RICHARD  DIXON .

I  HOPE  YOU  HAVE  ENJOYED  YOUR  VISIT  TO  THIS  HOME  PAGE  AND  THE  PREVIEWS  OF  MY  WORK  ON  THE  WEBSITE .

IF  YOU  HAVE  MORE  TIME  PLEASE  VISIT  THE  OTHER  SECTIONS  OF  THE  SITE  TO  SEE  MORE  OF  MY  IMAGINATION  AT  WORK.....

THE  WEB  SITE  IS  UPDATED  ON   A  REGULAR  BASIS  WITH  NEW  AND  ARCHIVE  WORK  FROM  MY  MANY  YEARS  IN  THE  MEDIA  ADVERTISING  BUSINESS  IN  THE  TOY  INDUSTRY  ,  CHILDREN'S  COMICS  ,  MAGAZINES  ,  SUPERMATION  PHOTOSTORY  ADVENTURES  AND  MODEL   MAKING  WITH  MINIATURES...

THANK  YOU  FOR  YOUR  VISIT  TO  MY  SITE....

RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS

LANCASHIRE 

ENGLAND .

EMAIL  ADDRESS  FOR  CONTACT ....tpdnorthwest@outlook.com