TWCJim's Artwork

[phw115wvwx]

What is WeatherNation like in your area? Does it feature any local content in addition to the network itself?

Around every 10 minutes, a recorded local forecast segment is done with one of the TV meteorologists from my ABC station.  Then, a short 45-second local forecast in Weatherscan style with music is shown.  However, the maps are changing every five seconds during both segments, which make everything difficult to follow.  The music doesn't have much variety either. 

Overall, everything seems rushed and bland, including the national broadcast itself.  TWC at least gave a detailed 36-hour forecast and a 7-day extended forecast during the good days of local forecasts, but all I see now on Weathernation is a brief glimpse of the 7-day extended forecast and nothing more than tomorrow's forecast in detail during my local segments.  I want to know what's going on and why, so I'm not impressed.

[toxictwister00]

Speaking of WeatherNation, apparently our so called "Acuuweather channel" morphed into a WeatherNation channel recently. I noticed it this weekend.

[TWCJim]

My Weatherscan concept with the updated 2013 LOT8s fog icon:



IMO these new icons that TWC plans to use in next month's LOT8s graphical updates kinda look like they were drawn by little kids!   

[TWCJim]

Hard to believe that it's been almost nine years since these babies were decommissioned:



Anyways, I attempted to re-create an image of the 3000's CC screen in Adobe Photoshop, using real weather info from weather.com. The text is the real 3000 text (downloaded from TWC Classics BTW) and I attempted to stretch out the text so it would look almost exactly like the real thing. For the guide layer, I used a still image of one of my old video recordings of a real 3000. Took me about 40-45 minutes to make this image.

So what do you guys think?

[TWCJim]

I just had to make this 



The background image is from a traffic cam found on the Connecticut's DOT website. The image of Falco was photoshopped out of a biography book cover. The line "It's getting weird" references to a lyric from Falco's song "Männer des Westens - Any Kind of Land".

Even though I personally believe that The Weather Channel's idea of naming winter storms still sounds ridiculous, it sometimes has its funny moments. 

[TWCJim]

Updated station ID pic for winter:



I updated the image to match the current TWC graphics shown during commercial breaks on live programming. Even though the Dish STAR never displayed the channel number, I did it anyway here to show how cable headends would display it if TWC would ever bring back the station ID segment (which they probably won't anyway ).

The background image was taken by myself at Lake Coeur d'Alene (located about 30 miles to the east of Spokane) a few years ago.

[TWCJim]

I know it's a little early, but... happy 2014! 



The background image is that of the Spokane River, which was taken by me a couple of years ago.

[TWCJim]

This will probably never exist in a bazillion years, but here are some "Weather All The Time" LDL still concepts that I made for XL and 4000 viewers:


WeatherSTAR XL


Live



Long-Form




WeatherSTAR 4000


Live



Long-Form

[luesjo12]

This will probably never exist in a bazillion years, but here are some "Weather All The Time" LDL still concepts that I made for XL and 4000 viewers:


WeatherSTAR XL


Live



Long-Form




WeatherSTAR 4000


Live



Long-Form

These are so amazing! I doubt TWC would use them, but they should. 😊

[TWCJim]

Go Hawks! 

[TWCJim]

Testing, testing...



All of the above info is fake.

I've been working on new graphics for my emulator. These graphics are almost identical to the 2010-2013 IntelliSTAR graphics. I hope to have my graphically-updated emulator finished real soon, but I still have a ways to go before I'm done.

[TWCJim]

Here's my TWC station ID concept with a new background for spring. 



The picture in the background was taken at my grandmother's house late last summer.

[TWCJim]

Should TWC decide to bring the Local Weather ID number (which they should IMO) here is my concept of what that might look like with the current graphics.


Normal mode:




Storm Alert mode:

[TWCJim]

If the Dish and DirecTV STARs were to cue the satellite LDL during long-form programming the same way the cable STARs do for the local weather, this is my concept of what that might look like:




Using snapshots from the Dish Weather Channel feed, I basically just cropped out the satellite LDL during live programming and inserted into the blue-grey space that appears during long-form. Not bad, huh?

[TWCJim]

My concept of the local LDL for IntelliSTAR 2 Juniors: