THE RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS

WEBSITE  LANCASHIRE  ENGLAND

Welcome to the Showcase Website for all my Creative Photography and Design from 1970 to the present time . This website also covers my work for the Toy Industry Advertising Product Photography Visual Design . Children's Comics and Magazines Photography . Miniature Supermation Set Design for Photography , Film and Television Productions in England . The Website also shows my Photography and Miniature Production Design work for  Marvel Comics UK , Titan Comics and Magazines , Panini Comics , Toontastic Comics , Cartoon Network Comic , Warner Bros Looney Toons Comics , Toy Companies Hasbro Toys UK , Mattel Toys UK , MGA Toys UK , Kenner Toys UK and many more images from my Visual Media Production Studio based in Lancashire , England .

THE WEBSITE COUNTER SHOWS THE RUNNING TOTAL OF VISITORS TO MY WEBSITE 

 

This present website for my work has received over 291,000 viewers since it was created in 2016 

Currently we receive over 2000 visitors each month to see the latest images of my work created at the north west of England Studio on the various pages of my studio's website .

 

IF YOU WISH TO CONTACT THE STUDIO ABOUT MY WORK .

PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING STUDIO EMAIL

tpdnorthwest@outlook.com 

 

RICHARD DIXON

TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .

MY LATEST SERIES....IN THE AMAZONSTORE......

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - A RICHARD DIXON SUPERMATIONCOMICS PRODUCTION -

COPYWRITE - OCTOBER 2012 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED .

LICENSING AGREEMENTS AND PUBLISHING AVAILABLE  - PLEASE CONTACT THE STUDIO

SEASTAR 5 THE SCI-FI SERIES

We are delighted to bring you our first supermation comicbook series "SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS" .

This is a sci-fi story of underwater action and adventure set in the 21st Century at the bottom of the sea....

 

SEASTAR 5 is a new comicbook series made in supermation artwork....created in art with additional photoeffects and model set designs by Richard Dixon at his north west of England Production Studio .

Initially we are releasing three books for the series with a continuation style story line that covers all the three .

 

The Blackpool Lancashire "Evening Gazette" newspaper said about SEASTAR 5

 "Its like Star Trek but under the sea".

....Dive deep into the Pacific Ocean with the Aquanaut Crew of the supersonic speed capable Carrier Battle Cruiser Submarine SEASTAR 5 ....into the mysterious underwater kingdom of the lost continent of Lemuria in this new series of supermation SCI-FI comicbooks created in Lancashire , England by Richard Dixon's TPD STUDIOS UK ......

ON SALE IN THE AMAZONSTORE AND COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE NOW

     SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS

A NEW SCI-FI UNDERSEA ADVENTURE SERIES IN A COMICBOOK FORMAT WRITTEN AND CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON AT HIS STUDIOS IN THE NORTHWEST OF ENGLAND.....A SERIES OF THREE SUPERMATION STYLE ART COMICBOOKS WHICH ARE BEING RELEASED THROUGH COMICBOOK SHOPS IN LANCASHIRE AND IN THE AMAZONSTORE UK....ALSO ON EBAY UK  .

SEASTAR 5 STRANGE ENCOUNTER - BOOK ONE

The first part of the story...released first on Amazon Kindle as an e-book release .

A Paperback edition is also available in the Amazonstore .

 

The new supermation comicbook version is in ComicBook shops across Lancashire....and Book shops in St.Annes on sea Lancashire .

 

The Supermation ComicBook is available on E/Bay now with FreePost UK .

International customers will need to add £10.00 for post despatch to International Destinations on Ebay.......

SEASTAR 5 PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA - BOOK TWO

The second book in the series is currently in production .

Please contact the studio if you wish to receive publicity material for this new sci-fi episode coming soon....

SEASTAR 5 LEMURIA STRIKES BACK - BOOK THREE

The third book in the series has also started production for a release next year....

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS

A RICHARD DIXON SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM PRODUCTION

MADE AT TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND

SEASTAR 5 WRITTEN , DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY RICHARD DIXON 2012 .

RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS UK

VISUAL IMAGES BEYOND THE IMAGINATION.....

 

Welcome to my history in the visual media business.....Photography , Art Design , Visual Production Design , across England and Beyond .

 

A journey from my early days in the nineteen seventies , eighties and nineties in the Toy Industry , Childrens Comics in the UK , to my latest photoart style Sci-Fi Supermation ComicBook Productions and Movie-TV miniature model design for Independent Producers and Production Companies.....all created across my studios in the northwest of England .

Come take a look at the various pages on the website and see a showcase of my work from the last fifty-five years across the visual photography and model set production design where my work has been created at these studios .

 

RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY

TOY PHOTO DESIGN STUDIO SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM

TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE UK

 

You can also find me and my work on the following digital platforms.....

X TWITTER....INSTAGRAM...THREADS AND ALSO FACEBOOK AND DEVIANT ART PLATFORMS.....

 

We will begin the journey .....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 , Wedding and Portrait Photography , 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 of 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 2,000 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 291,000 .

 

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 .

 

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 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 .

 

        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 , model animation characters designs with images and the creation of model 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 a new realistic photovisual style art format under SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM worldwide with sales also now on E/Bay UK for international buyers .

 

SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS ....Launched in February 2023 on Amazon Kindle and then a paperback Book version was released in the amazonStore UK ..

 

The first SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS video promotional trailer , produced by UK Film Producer Simon Cox can be viewed on this website or on YouTube / Twitter was also released across social media platforms .

The Supermation SEASTAR 5 Comicbooks Limited Edition are now available across Lancashire , England  in five outlets so far - Lancaster - Preston - St.Annes on Sea - Blackburn .

We have also released a Paperback Book Edition in the AmazonStore UK.....and an E-Book Edition on AmazonKindle and some Samsung Phones and Tablets .

 

INTO THE SCI-FI MOVIE WORLD......IN 2025.....

I also entered the UK Film Industry for the first time in 2020 to design and create eight individual studio sized  miniature spacecraft models for a new British Sci-Fi Feature Film being produced by Simon Cox called "Of Infinite Worlds".

As Production Designer Miniatures on this new movie I have achieved my ambition of working on feature films in the UK .

The movie is currently in production with live action filming now completed with Editing of the Movie begining.... a release of the film is due late 2025 -2026 .

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

 

 

BACK INTO THE FUTURE WITH TPD STUDIOS IN 2025 AND BEYOND......

My work at the present continues with more new releases soon into my world of supermation style comicbooks at SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM from TPD STUDIOS England .

 

Sci-Fi space adventure MAGNUS JONES STARCOMMANDO - more new previews for this series coming soon....

 

My space time travel sci-fi adventure for 2026.....which was named as "STEAMBOAT JACK"....is now getting a name change and upgrade in book length with extended chapters....the new name to look for will be.....JETBOAT JACK development work will continue through this year at my studio .

 

We have also started some development work on StarCruiser Rangers another sc-fi story.....and a few other projects are waiting in the wings to see the light of days.....

 

Thanks for reading my History Career in the Media Business .

 

RICHARD DIXON 

TPD STUDIOS UK .

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .          

 

RICHARD DIXON

SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM

LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .

 

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS FROM TPD STUDIOS ENGLAND.....NOW IN SUPERMATION CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT BY RICHARD DIXON - 2025-2026

MORE SEASTAR 5

The next two books are in development for a release in late 2025 and 2026....

MAGNUS JONES STAR COMMANDO

This new sci-fi creation is being developed for a comicbook release.....

JETBOAT JACK.......

In the last two years we have been on a journey to develop this new time and space sci-fi story.....more news coming soon.....

NEW SCI-FI CONCEPT.....

STARCRUISERRANGER now in development......

SEASTAR 5 THE VIDEO TRAILER FOR THE SERIES IS NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW.......

AVAILABLE HERE AND ON YOUTUBE NOW......

NEW IN 2025...........

RICHARD DIXON ENTERS THE MOVIE WORLD WITH NEW SCI-FI MINIATURE MODEL CREATIONS FOR NEW UK MOVIE.........

OF INFINITE WORLDS MADE BY UK PRODUCER SIMON COX - RELEASES LATE 2025 - 2026

OF INFINITE WORLDS - A SIMON COX PRODUCTION ALPHASTAR PRODUCTIONS NUNEATON , WARWICKSHIRE , ENGLAND .

All copywrite on these images by Simon Cox AlphaStar Productions 2023 .

 

 

 

Now come an enjoy the undersea saga.....

INTRODUCTION TO SEASTAR 5 THE SERIES.........

This is the concept....as we move to the near future...

SEASTAR 5 BOOK ONE - CHAPTER ONE

THE EPISODE CONTINUES IN THE SUPERMATION COMICBOOK NOW.... 

 

THE BOOK IS ON SALE .....IN THE AMAZONSTORE....AND ON EBAY....AND IN COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND.....

 

 

 

THE RICHARD DIXON STUDIO ARCHIVES........

Please take a look at my two new sections on the website.....THE STUDIO ARCHIVES....see the website contents at the top of this page.....to see a journey down memory lane for my studio and location work......

PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE BRATZ TOY RANGE....

TITAN PUBLISHING LONDON - MGA TOYS USA - MGA TOYS UK

MIGHTY MAX TOY RANGE - BLUEBIRD TOYS

ALSO PHOTOGRAPHY OF MIGHTY MAX FOR MATTEL TOYS USA RELEASE BY RICHARD DIXON .

THESE PAGES OF MIGHTY MAX PHOTOGRAPHY CREATED AT TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE ENGLAND FOR THE ARGOS CATALOGUES BY RICHARD DIXON IN THE UK RELEASE OF THE TOYS .

 

BEELOW.....

GI JOE - ACTION FORCE - SKY PATROL - ACTION MAN - TRANSFORMERS - HASBRO TOYS LONDON 

STARCRUISER THE ORIGINAL STUDIO MODEL BUILT BY PROFESSIONAL FILM MODEL MAKER MARTIN BOWER , ENGLAND , FOR GERRY ANDERSON PRODUCTIONS - 1970'S . I also worked with Gerry Anderson's Blackpool Space City Exhibition Team...which featured the model set for his Film Commercial for Jiff Fruits InterGalactic Rescue...this went out at Cinemas in the UK with the first STAR WARS MOVIE in 1977-78.....

I was lead photographer on Bluebird Toys ZERO HOUR range in 1990-1991....and GI Joe Action Force with Hasbro in 1990-1991 in the UK and USA comics advertising.....