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 2,500 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 338,000 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 books.....taking the first five stories I had written from the fifteen episodes created in 2012 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 releaseda 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 "PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA" near to release.....filming and editing is complete....we are currently printing demo pre-production books to check everything
before we do a full print run for shops in the UK....hopefully an Amazonstore edition as well.....and on other online stores......
We don't yet have a release date....but it won't be long....
THE THIRD BOOK .....SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - SEAFIGHTER
Has started filming and that should be ready sometime in 2027 .
We have been doing some sequences on "Cleveleys Beach - StarWars Andor" location....standing in for our Pacific Tropical Island locations.....also we have expanded our helpers on the project...UK
Artist Simon Pritchard has done some promotional art for the series , his work will feature a lot in Book two and Book 3 .
With our original puppets we also have a very talented character creation artist now doing our "face-head" creations , Omani Hanmer One Hope Artistry of Cleveleys has given the production a whole
new realistic look with character design .
I myself have added to the production of SEASTAR 5 with new skills....steel skeleton armatures for the creation of original puppets....also clothes design costumes done by my family
members....Graphic Design is also on a different level with Leanne Mansfield Graphic Design from Wigan Lancashire giving a new look to titles on our books productions .
Along the way Digital Art , from artists Connor Magill - Northern Ireland and Lee Richardson - Lancaster , England have given me a lot of additional help on posters and vehicle art.....we also
have "Dinosaurs" for the lost world of Lemuria sequences.....stop motion creations from top animator Peter Montgomery - Helensburgh Scotland who created some very realistic models for us.......
Well thats my story up to now.....the future is just around the corner.....and it will look fantastic....keep watching my site....SEASTAR 5 IS COMING.....and we have further productions on the way
as well next year.....
Thanks for reading about my career and journey.....
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS
LANCASHIRE
ENGLAND
FUTURE WORK PRODUCTIONS
IN DEVELOPMENT BY RICHARD DIXON AT TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE UK .
" MAGNUS JONES STARCOMMANDO ".....our space sci-fi adventure concept idea .
We are looking to present the first book in a planned series in full supermation movie retrostyle artwork created by UK MOVIE POSTER AND COMMANDO COMIC COVER ARTIST SIMON PRITCHARD sometime
next year .
" JETBOAT JACK " .......A TIME AND SPACE SCI-FI ADVENTURE.....a new concept idea .
This production of our other Sci-Fi Series currently in development by Richard Dixon and his TPD STUDIOS Team of artists will feature a Space Time Travel Adventure Storyline and is based on an
idea that was written about three years ago following a presentation to BBC Television with photography created from images we shot on the Island of Mauritius , together with additional images filmed
at TPD STUDIOS Lancashire England .
Since then we have developed the idea further into a comicbook pilot which we will release a selection of preview images to the website next year.
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS UK .
LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
RICHARD DIXON
SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM
LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
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