Hi .....Here's some more from my past....Action Man....Lara Croft Tomb Raider.....GI Joe.....Action Man.......hope you like these...
Richard Dixon
Lancs
UK
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Then we have the "Danger Girls"....a poster for online sales...
Then the Bratz...."sports range" with car...I worked on The Bratz when they launched the range in the UK with a Magazine published by TITAN Magazines UK I did most of the photography and model set designs....
Early He Man and Masters of the Universe....did a selection of publicity shots for Mattel....]
GI Joe Action Force "Warthog"..."River Crossing"...publicity image for Hasbro Toys UK ....
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The second run of Masters of the Universe in the early 2000's I think this one....again its for Mattel and also "Toontastic Comics" of Oldham....
Like the use of the painted backdrops in the last two.
ReplyDeleteMakes them more theatrical and 'fantasy' somehow.
Hi everyone.....just a quick mention on the technical side....the "backgrounds"....in some of my early photography of toy products I used combinations of techniques when I designed backgrounds for toy product advertising .
ReplyDeleteThe GI Joe shoots ....painted backgrounds were used in oils.....I was very lucky to meet up with a very talented artist in the early nineties who created some very stunning artwork backgrounds for me , Shiela Burnett , her talent working with my model display set designs proved a winning combination for us with Hasbro Toys for the range .
Masters of the Universe was an interesting assignment....the backgrounds I used at first came from designs created for the TV series....I received high quality scans of the TV animation backgrounds....I then had these enlarged as photographic prints , twenty inches in height and thirty inches wide....foreground landscape sets were made in my studio....combination of photo print and model landscape together with the figures was created again in my studio with additional lighting effects and a fog machine on some images .Camera equipment on the Master of the Universe shoots were done with "film" cameras , not digital....a pair of Pentax 6x7 cameras...one with a macro 100mm lens and the other a 50mm wide angle....in more recent years I have moved on from painted backgrounds to full photographic style images....both large prints or projected screens using real life pictures created by myself . Richard Dixon TPD STUDIOS UK .