ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY AND MINIATURE LANDSCAPE SET DESIGN CREATIONS FOR THE TOY INDUSTRY , INDEPENDENT FILM AND TV COMPANIES , ADVERTISING AGENCIES , PUBLISHERS .

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SINCE 2016 WHEN THIS PRESENT SITE WAS LAUNCHED . 

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RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND

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TOY PHOTO DESIGN IMAGES AND TPD STUDIOS IMAGES .

All our design and photography services have been available since the 1970's to the 1980's...and through the 1990's and 2000's....

We are still here today in the business of photography and creating sci-fi worlds of adventure from our studio base in the north of England...for Independent Film Producers , Directors and Publishing Companies , contact the studio email if you would like to chat , we would love to hear from you .....

WE WILL NOW BEGIN MY JOURNEY.............

The clock starts back to the year 1970 in Blackpool , Lancashire when I created RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY following a Blackpool College Photography Course .

My photography in my early years covered work across all of the following , Commercial Photography , Entertainment Industry Photography in Theatres and Exhibitions , Wedding and Portrait Photography for five years , also shooting Model Portfolios for Fashion and Glamour Models starting out in the model and fashion business in the north west of England , Motor Sport Photography of Formula One - Formula Two -Touring Cars....and lots of Advertising Product Studio Photography for local companies on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire .

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 , 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 on the Fylde Coast , Lancashire , England .

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 present studio website , created in 2016 receives over 3,000 viewers each month to see my current work projects together with my Picture Archives .

The current viewing figures for the website since 2016 are now over 345,000 views.....

Thankyou all for looking in on our work we really appreciate  you following what we create .

My Toy Industry Advertising work has featured across many leading products over the years , including....

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 over the thirty five years my Studios worked for Companies across the Children's Media and the UK Toy Industry.

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 Action Man Comic which featured my fifteen photostories specially created with Hasbro's Action Man Childrens product .

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 working across seven of my production studios based in the northwest of England , 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 , TRUST HOUSE FORTE HOTELS AND LEISURE CENTRES  , NATIONAL SAVINGS , together with many , 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 .

I also created two pilot fully storyboarded supermation ideas with sample photography during this period . 

THE BRATZ PHOTOSTORY PIRATES ADVENTURE....and "BATTLE FOR ETERNIA" a stop motion style MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE PHOTOSTORY PILOT  .

These two productions did not go through to production as both magazines for these products were cancelled by the Publishing Companies at the time....just weeks before the two productions were due to be filmed....they would have been something to see if they had been made......

However a lot of the work preparations were then regrouped and I started writing again...after seeing some old TV episodes of Stingray , Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and James Cameron's THE ABYSS movie my ideas started to go towards the creation of an undersea adventure idea.....people from under the sea living there from Earth's past in secret.....and then in 2012 this idea was expanded to include an interdimensional aqua aliens invasion force of Reptilians arriving back from the stars to reclaim their lost empire of Lemuria beneath the sea...this was the start of my new idea....in 2012 I created a fifteen episode adventure series called SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS....a new sci-fi idea had arrived....

This new direction for my studio would be created over a six year period alongside my normal Toy Industry Advertising Product Photography and making sci-fi models for Independent Film Producers projects in England .

SEASTAR 5 PRODUCTION.....started in 2013.....

To create this new sci-fi adventure idea....I separated my studio area into two.....one for my advertising work and the other for SEASTAR 5....I realised it was going to take some time to do and create .

From then till now a lot has happened...I have been busy....sci-fi world building a retro style futurism creation series into a comic book format that would be fully illustrated in a model animation production .

It took some time , but using my experience in set building for miniatures and photography knowledge I was successful .

The result was an initial release on SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - BOOK ONE - STRANGE ENCOUNTER .

This would be the begining....to do three book stories from the original series.....taking the first five stories from the fifteen episodes....I had written and create them into print .

We released this first concept book in the Amazonstore as a digital download.....then a paperback with them also...the book stated gaining customers.....so we released a promotional video on YouTube - created for me by Producer Simon Cox....it got loads of views......then we put the comicbook printed version on E/Bay ....and included the international market as well.....another success....

In Comicbook shops across Lancashire we launched a limited release of a full printed version.....again all the books went out the shops....

Today we have the second book in the series SEASTAR 5 "PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA" which is due for release in January 2027 , together with the third story in the series arriving in late summer 2027....SEASTAR 5 SEAFIGHTER....this will appear in our new magazine which we are publishing in the UK....called "SUPERMATION MAGAZINE" .

The order book for this has now opened....it will be a limited release....to Amazonstore , Ebay and Comicbook shops in Lancashire who have previously supported us with the SEASTAR 5 series .

We have tried to approach other outfits in the UK about taking our books , unfortunately none in the south or anywhere apart from Lancashire in England were interested , so we will keep just the Lancashire shops as our high street showcase for the new releases for now .

Thanks for reading about my career and journey.....

RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS

LANCASHIRE

ENGLAND       

RICHARD DIXON

SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .