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 Modelworks and Miniature Set Production Design
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SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS .....A RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS PRODUCTION 2012 .
The Children's Science Fiction action adventure animated series creation , written by Richard Dixon and made at his TPD STUDIOS in 2012 , set in the undersea world of tomorrow , has now been released into a fully illustrated storybook series of six books .
All the storybooks will feature an illustrated style in SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGES which gives the reader of the books a realistic animation cinema style visual presentation experience.....
This storybooks series is now available in the AMAZON Kindle Store with the first book in the series "Strange Encounter" available to buy as a download .
The remaining illustrated books in the series will follow the first one into the Kindle Store during 2023 and 2024.......
YOUTUBE VIDEO....."SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - THE SERIES" 2023 .
DATELINE MARCH 2023....
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS ARRIVES ON RETRO TOYS WEBSITE
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For more images from SEASTAR 5 The Series......
ON YOUTUBE..... ...."SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS"
The book promotional video created by UK Producer Simon Cox AlphaStar Productions . England .
A video showing preview images from the SEASTAR 5 books from the series created by Richard Dixon .
Now showing on the YouTube Channel .
STAND BY FOR ACTION.....WE ARE ABOUT TO LAUNCH SEASTAR 5.......
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LATEST FROM RICHARD DIXON'S TPD STUDIOS
"SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGES"
Check out his latest work for purchase now available on Amazon Kindle Store
with his science fiction adventure storybook "SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS" .
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 196,000 viewers , with over 3000 visitors to the site each month looking at the pages on the site of 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 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS , following a pilot production photostory called SEASTAR ONE .
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS....the video storybook promotional trailer is now available to view on YouTube ....I hope you will take a look....the storybook series is now being released to purchase .
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 in 2023 for the Toy Industry , together with my Children's Supermation Story Book creations with the first now available on Amazon Kindle .
More of these are in development and new images will be arriving on the website over the coming year , including " STEAMBOAT JACK " , " MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS " , " SINBAD GOLD RAIDER HEROES ", " SWORDS OF TARRA " and more storybooks for " SEASTAR 5 ".
Please keep watching my website for details of these exciting storybook releases coming along from RICHARD DIXON'S TPD STUDIOS UK....
Thanks for reading my history......
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS UK .
Studio E/mail address......
tpdnorthwest@outlook.com
A RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS PRODUCTION .......
A SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY STORYBOOK CREATION IN SUPERMATION RETRO IMAGES ARRIVING 2024 , CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT .
Image above.....
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 RETROART IMAGES 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 .
PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD DIXON.....A SELECTION OF IMAGES TAKEN IN THE NINETEEN SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES OF THE WORK OF GERRY ANDERSON.....I was asked to take a series of images by EMI / ITC for promotional use of some of the miniatures and sets from some of Gerry Anderson's programmes....including Thunderbirds , UFO , Space 1999 , Joe 90 , The Secret Service and more....including a meeting with Gerry Anderson in Blackpool .
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 .
Images below...
Some more images of Martin Bowers Model work from Space 1999.....and also shots of the Delta Beacon Space Station ....
"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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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 .
SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGE......a recent example of my artwork ....a design study with pencils and paint art sticks ....created in the studio at TPD STUDIOS Lancashire , England ....
MATTEL TOYS UK - TOONTASTIC COMICS UK
PHOTOGRAPHY AND SET DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON .
MGA TOYS USA - TITAN MAGAZINES LONDON
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MINIATURE SET DESIGN BY RICHARD DIXON .
PLAYMATE TOYS - MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODEL SET LANDSCAPE DESIGNS BY RICHARD DIXON .
ON LINE ADVERTISING POSTER
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MODEL SET CREATION BY RICHARD DIXON .
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