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THE RICHARD DIXON STUDIO WEBSITE

TPD STUDIOS  LANCASHIRE  ENGLAND

My solid experience in the creative visual images field and long list of previous projects completed demonstrate my reliability as a business partner. By choosing Richard Dixon TPD Studios , you will benefit from many years of visual expertise, dedication and creativity to bring your projects into reality . My Studio based in the north west of Lancashire England can give you visual photography and miniature supermation creative design beyond your imagination .

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This website for my work has received over 229,000 viewers since it was created in 2016 .

 

I receive over 2000 visitors each month to see the latest images on the various pages of my studio's site .

 

IF YOU WISH TO CONTACT THE STUDIO ABOUT MY WORK OR ASK QUESTIONS .

PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING STUDIO EMAIL

tpdnorthwest@outlook.com 

 

I really appreciate you looking in on my latest work on show .....this website is updated every month .....why not add the site as one of your favourite websites to visit.....

We also show images on the following social media platforms...TWITTER X , INSTAGRAM , FACEBOOK .

Please take a look at our pages on these platforms....if you wish to send us an email with your comments or ask about our work ....just get in touch - emails are picked up every day....

 

Thanks for visiting the website .

 

THE HOME WEBSITE FOR SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGES COMICBOOK ADVENTURES CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON'S TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND....

The new sci-fi western style comicbook series now in development at Richard Dixon's TPD STudios UK .....

MAGNUS JONES IS COMING TO COMICBOOKS....

MAGNUS JONES IN DEVELOPMENT FOR 2024

MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS......BOOK ONE.....ALSO IN DEVELOPMENT BOOK TWO - MAGNUS JONES AND THE PIRATES OF THE GALAXY......a third book in the series is also planned called "MAGNUS JONES AND THE HEROES OF XANADU".....KEEP WATCHING THE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS OF THIS EXCITING NEW ACTION COMICBOOK SERIES.....COMING SOON FROM TPD STUDIOS .

The new children's comicbook series now available with the first release on Amazon Kindle Publishing with the

" Download Version ".....the Supermation ComicBook Edition is now available on E/Bay UK for worldwide despatch....Episodes Two and Three are in production for release in 2024.....more details soon.....

Now on Amazon Kindle with the first episode the new Sci-Fi Children's ComicBook Series - SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS , a download version can be purchased worldwide on the Amazon KindleStore platform....at an amazing price......

The Supermation Special ComicBook version of SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS can now be purchased on the E/Bay UK platform for despatch worldwide...search E/Bay - "SCIENCE FICTION SEASTAR 5" to purchase the comicbook....

The Supermation ComicBook Version also includes a"Making of SEASTAR 5 feature article" - a look behind the scenes of this sci-fi creation of a comicbook series made in the north west of England at TPD STUDIOS......

ALSO NOW IN DEVELOPMENT AT TPD STUDIOS UK BY RICHARD DIXON.....

The new Time and Space Adventure Supermation ComicBook Series now in development at Richard Dixon's TPD Studios .....more details coming soon.....

SEASTAR 5 - A VIDEO PREVIEW OF THE NEW SERIES IS NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW  .....CHECK OUT THE NEW COMIC BOOK SERIES - ON YOUTUBE WITH UNDERSEA ACTION AND ADVENTURE IN SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGES ......VIDEO CREATED BY UK PRODUCER SIMON COX ALPHA STAR PRODUCTIONS UK .....

CHECK OUT THE SEASTAR 5 VIDEO BELOW....NOW.....

PRODUCTION CREDITS FOR THE MAKING OF SEASTAR 5 .

STORYBOOKS & SUPERMATION COMICS  .

 

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS

A RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS UK PRODUCTION 2012 .

 

THE SERIES WAS WRITTEN AND CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON AT HIS NORTH WEST LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND STUDIO .

The first series of science fiction underwater adventures of the super submarine SEASTAR 5 now consist of three episodes in comicbook supermation retroart format, Strange Encounter , Princess from Lemuria and Warlords Of Lemuria .

The first book is now on release with book two and three following in spring-summer 2024 .

A second series of three comicbooks is planned for 2025 .

 

ALL PHOTOGRAPHY AND SUPERMATION DESIGNS BY RICHARD DIXON .

 

STORYBOOK COVER AND COMIC BOOK COVER DESIGN BY CONNOR MAGILL - NORTHERN IRELAND DIGITAL DESIGNER - WHO ALSO DESIGNED SOME OF THE EFFECTS AND SEASTAR 5 MODEL MINIATURES GRAPHICS .

 

STORYBOOK COVER AND COMIC BOOK COVER TYPOGRAPHY BY LEANNE MANSFIELD

LEANNE MANSFIELD GRAPHIC DESIGN , WIGAN . LANCASHIRE ..

 

SEASTAR 5 IS PRODUCED AT TPD STUDIOS - LANCASHIRE - ENGLAND  

IN SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGES FORMAT .

Location Filming for SEASTAR 5 on the Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius .

All miniature designs , set designs , characters supermation art designs are created by Richard Dixon .

 

No aliens were harmed in the making of this production .

Richard Dixon would like to thank the Commanders and Aquanaut Crews of the Marine Aquanaut Rangers Command for their support and assistance in the making of this ComicBook Series .

 

SEASTAR 5 THE COMIC BOOK SERIES CONTINUES....NEXT EPISODES IN PRODUCTION

" THE PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA"  EPISODE 2 COMICBOOK RELEASE IS DUE MAY 2024....THE THIRD COMICBOOK RELEASE " WARLORDS OF LEMURIA " EPISODE 3 ......IS ESTIMATED TO RELEASE IN SUMMER 2024......

Richard  Dixon's  TPD  STUDIOS  LANCASHIRE UK

My History.....from the early days to now.....

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 expanded  to become my operating media brand today of RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS , an Advertising Photography and Visual Production Design Studio .

 

Over the next thirty five 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 " RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS " , Photography , Miniature Set Production Design , Model Making and Visual Art Production Design is still created in the north west of England at a number of studio locations .

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 viewing visits of over 229,000 viewers since this present website was created in 2016 , with around 2000 visitors to the site every month looking at the various 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 concept photostory called SEASTAR ONE .

Over the six years of production on SEASTAR 5 a total of fifteen illustrated episodes for the series were created at my Lancashire Studio with storyboards , sample images and the creation of a number of sets with vehicle miniatures .

These have now been brought together into a new visual format of initially three episodes which are now being published in the UK in two versions for this first release .

 

The first episode in a Illustrated Storybook  style version was released in February 2023 as a digital download version on the Amazon Kindle Store .

This first episode " Strange Encounter " from the series is now  available on Amazon Kindle for worldwide purchase from their website .

Feedback from this digital version was very positive so I decided to take production forward and create an actual  full children's - teen comicbook supermation retroart images illustrated presentation version of the first episode .

 

The Production is now looking more like a realistic cinema animation style visual  sci-fi adventure played out across very realistic photoart backgrounds together with characters being presented as artwork versions on the printed page specially created for the series to give the viewer an animation storyline with visual images that look realistic beyond the imagination .

 

The second and third episodes are currently in production for release in 2024 as comicbook supermation versions in May and the Summer 2024 .

 

A second series of SEASTAR 5 ComicBook Versions are being planned based on the remaining episodes originally created....more details on these in the near future .

 

THE NEW SUPERMATION COMIC BOOK Version 2023

...............launched in the UK on the 28 August 2023 with the updated format with the first episode , together with a look behind the scenes special feature article showing the model animation set designs showing some of SEASTAR 5 full model animation being created near Blackpool , Lancashire , England where my Studio is based .

The comic book version is now on sale through the E/Bay Sales site online in England....International Sales are also available on E/Bay UK . 

 

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS....the video storybook series promotional trailer can be viewed on this website or on YouTube or Twitter X....I hope you will take a look....

 

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 2023 and 2024 .

Preview images for some of these miniatures can now be viewed on this website .

 

 

SOMETHING NEW THIS WAY COMES in Late 2023.....

 

Previews of some of my latest work are available to view on the Home Page of the website each month , together with further images on Twitter X and Instagram , also check out my Facebook Pages....

 

New ComicBook Productions in the process of being written and made at our Studios in England .

 

SEATAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS...EPISODE TWO.....PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA NOW IN PRODUCTION  FOR A MAY 2024 RELEASE....

 

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS...EPISODE THREE.....WARLORDS OF LEMURIA NOW IN PRODUCTION FOR SUMMER 2024 RELEASE....

 

We are also currently bringing more creations forward with development work in progress on the following productions....Sci-Fi Time and Space Adventure Series STEAMBOAT JACK and Sci-Fi Space Western Adventure "MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS " with its sequel "MAGNUS JONES AND THE PIRATES OF THE GALAXY " both of which have recently been filming near Thurso in Scotland .

 

Please keep watching the Website and on Twitter X / Instagram to see more amazing images from my world of Supermation Images and Toy Industry Products Photography with Miniature Set Production Design from Richard Dixon's TPD STUDIOS , based in the north west of Lancashire , England .

 

Thank you for reading my history......

 

RICHARD DIXON 

TPD STUDIOS UK .

 

Studio E/mail address......

tpdnorthwest@outlook.com

 

MAGNUS JONES STARJET RANGERS

A NEW SCI-FI STYLE WESTERN SERIES IN SUPERMATION RETROART IMAGES.....

THIS NEW SERIES IS BEING CREATED AT TPD STUDIOS IN LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND and on location in 2023/2024 on the coast at Thurso in Scotland by Richard Dixon.

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IMAGES FROM THE RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIO'S ARCHIVE....FROM THE SEVENTIES - EIGHTIES - NINETIES AND UP TO THE PRESENT DAY , ENJOY GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE .

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A NEW SCIENCE FICTION FEATURE FILM MADE IN THE UK BY PRODUCER SIMON COX....NOW IN PRODUCTION IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND.......

MODEL SPACECRAFT BY RICHARD DIXON PRODUCTION DESIGNER FILM MINIATURES FOR THE TWO " OF INFINITE WORLDS " FEATURE FILMS BY UK PRODUCER SIMON COX

COMING SOON......from TPD STUDIOS.....a Fantasy Supermation Adventure in Time and Space

Welcome to a preview image for " STEAMBOAT JACK "....

An 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 Comic book presentation release ...its in Development at TPD STUDIOS UK .....more details in a few months.....

 

A selection of sample images from this comic book production can be viewed on the "STEAMBOAT JACK" section on this website now......

 

RETRO STYLE FANTASY ACTION ADVENTURE.....

The Adventures of Sinbad "GOLD RAIDER HEROES"....A Richard Dixon Supermation Storybook Production .

 

My tribute to action adventure fantasy films of the sixties and seventies....in a storybook model animation style production written and designed by myself at  TPD Studio's in Lancashire , England .

 

On this production I had the assistance of Peter Montgomery , top Fantasy Model Film Maker from Helensburgh in Scotland  who created the "monster winged lizard and giant wasp creatures " , I used in the production .

 

With the "balloon aerial photography sequences" I also had the excellent help from Paul Bradley Photography from Blackpool who came onboard to create the flying special effects work on the production .

 

 The Adventures of Sinbad is currently in development for a Supermation Style ComicBook release in the near future......pleas keep your eyes on my website for news of this exciting project as it moves forward to production .

STAND BY FOR ACTION .....INTERGALACTIC RESCUE.....THE WORK OF GERRY ANDERSON......

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"....

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 .

COMING SOON.....

ADVERTISING TOY PHOTOGRAPHY DESIGNED AND CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON AT TPD STUDIOS IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND......

M.A.S.K. THUNDERHAWK.....KENNER TOYS UK - IMAGE COPYWRITE USED WITH PERMISSION .

Here we have a number of images from my work in the UK Toy Industry , Children's Comics and Toy Exhibitions over the years....all images are the copywrite of the Toy Companies and Publishing Companies who were involved with these products....all images shown here are used with the permission of the copywrite holders of the products .

MIGHTY MAX TOY RANGE.....BLUEBIRD TOYS UK - Photography and Miniature Display Design by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS , Lancashire England 

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - MATTEL TOYS UK and Toontastic Comics UK - Photography and Miniature Set Design by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS - Lancashire , England .

Power Rangers - Bandai Toys and Toontastic Toys - Comics Advertising in the UK , Designed by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS UK .

ACTION MAN.....Hasbro Toys UK - Marvel Comics UK - Panini Comics UK - Gemma Cards - Pedigree Books England - Photography and Miniature Set Design by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS , England .

GI JOE / ACTION FORCE - TIGER FORCE - HASBRO TOYS UK - Photography and Miniature Set Design by Richard Dixon TPD Studios UK .

THE BRATZ....Advertising Creation for MGA Toys USA and Titan Publishing , London England .

TRANSFORMERS - ARMADA TOY RANGE - Hasbro Toys UK - Marvel Comics UK - Panini Comics UK - Photography and Miniature Display Design by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS UK .

LOONEY TOONS - WARNER BROS PUBLISHING - CARTOON NETWORK COMICS UK - PROMOTIONS PHOTOGRAPHY CHILDREN'S COMICS - Photography and Artwork Creation by Richard Dixon and Cartoon Network Comic Design Team - London England .

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK  - Photography and Miniature Set Design by Richard Dixon TPD Studios  , Lancashire England .

DANGER GIRLS TOY RANGE - On Line Retail Sales - Poster Advertising - Photography and Miniature Set Design by Richard dixon TPD Studios UK .

GI JOE SKY PATROL - HASBRO TOYS UK - Photography and Miniature Set Design by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS - Lancashire , England .

ACTION MAN GREETINGS CARD RANGE....From Gemma Cards International....Photography and Miniature Set Design By Richard Dixon .

ZERO HOUR TOYS - BLUEBIRD TOYS UK - MATTEL TOYS USA - Photography and Miniature Set Design by Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS UK .

 

Thank you for visiting my website.....

 

Please explore the rest of the website to see some more amazing images....

 

RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS

LANCASHIRE 

ENGLAND .