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TWC Fan Art / Need now: secondary cloud icon as in Mostly Sunny

« on: December 24, 2008, 04:20:36 PM »

You know the cloud in the Mostly Sunny icon? I need it on its own with appropriate shadowing. I found the only XL example of AM Fog PM Clouds (the very end of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1quXw-SCECM) and need that cloud to make it.

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Everything Else TWC / Changes at TWC: Right or wrong?

« on: December 16, 2008, 10:21:21 PM »

From 1998 to this current day, we've watched TWC and its progress. While some changes are great, there have been some flaws, especially after NBC took over ownership of TWC.

Michael and I have decided to write a letter to The Weather Channel expressing the last decade of problems at The Weather Channel and suggestions for the future.

We want your help to make it possible and to include a wide range of suggestions from many members of the TWC community. Please submit ideas by Dec. 21 to Michael or Raymie on the TWC fan forum of your choice.

Thanks, Michael and Raymie

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TWC Fan Art / Raymie's Icon-ery

« on: December 09, 2008, 06:33:36 PM »

Time for some long needed modified icons! Made with Photoshop and a good deal of the Eraser brush.

AM Clouds PM Sun v2 and AM T-Storms were actually seen on a STAR - the AM T-Storms is in the Screenshots section of TWCT (it's in the Extended Forecast).

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TWC Fan Art / The Weather Channel Reimagined

« on: November 29, 2008, 05:44:56 PM »

I have a bunch of modern concepts (XL-IS ish) - a complete package of TWC concepts and now some for WxScan.

The types:
Wave 1 concepts use a blue cloud background, ISv3 style titles, and have a PMX touch with the location name. Examples in Wave 1 use Middletown, Virginia and have file names beginning with TWC Concept.
Wave 2 features a different background, XLv1 style titles, and Charleston as the example city. Wave 2 also contains some WeatherScan designs using Frutiger. Wave 2 designs have just numbers or a number preceded by a W (for Weatherscan) for file names. "Current Conditions.png" is a concept for a 2-site STAR.
There are also other concepts featuring an updated 4000.

Resources used are original, from Martin's IS goodies (Record Temp items and Frutiger), from Robert, Michael, Tyler, and Al Lopez (modified XL icons), the Samurize forums and Stephen (XL icons), or the National Weather Service (weather advisories you see here were actually issued!). Very little of the weather data is real - if it is, it was obtained from weather.com or Weather Underground (almanac). The backgrounds were taken from large-format photos of clouds and then modified to look blurred.

One thing I noticed is that the Samurize forums called the XL icons the "Reference" package. There's no current TWC set, which is ironic enough considering some things TWC hasn't updated in years (the TWC Mac Dashboard widget and some web gadgets) still use the XL icons.