TWCJim's Artwork

[TWCJim]

My re-creation of the IntelliSTAR 2's Welcome screen graphics, featuring a question TWC would probably never ask regarding the random jokes. 

[TWCJim]

If only Dish Network would carry Weatherscan up here in Washington, but I seriously doubt they ever would. 

[TWCJim]

Made some new CD artwork for the Weatherscan music collection. 


Front Cover




Front Insert Back




CD Disc Tray Back




The background pics on the first two images were taken at Spring Canyon Campground in Washington state late last summer, while the background pic on the last image was taken from my back porch in Long Beach earlier this month.

Enjoy the new artwork! 

[TWCJim]

A new version of my Local Weather ID concept, using the current TWC graphics:



UPDATES:

• The city name has been replaced with the text: The Weather Channel is brought to you by: [insert cable provider here]
• The local weather ID number is smaller.

[TWCJim]

I decided to redo my personal LOT8s music mix CD for fun. 





Both of the background pictures are that of the Columbia River Gorge on the Washington/Oregon border near the Maryhill Stonehenge, taken in March 2014.

As for the songs, I removed 9 songs from the original mix (because I wanted to ) and added a new song, "Jessica" by The Allman Brothers Band.

What do you guys think?

[boyercam]

Fun fact...

Jessica was the music that played during my first, and only ever, local forecast in Tampa, FL. It also happens to be the theme tune to my favorite TV program.

Nice Artwork, Love the Question for the LOT8's, It's something that TWC should add to the greetings list...

[TWCJim]

This took me about 90 minutes to make:



It's basically a flat screen TV tuned to a channel, which, in this case, is The Weather Channel. Using Adobe Photoshop, I took a stock image from online and then cut out a square space on the TV to put images inside the hole. The images in the hole are 853px by 480px. Also, at the top-left corner of the TV screen is a re-creation of the channel info box seen on a real Samsung TV, which I happen to have at my house.

The image I used here as an example is a snapshot of the IntelliSTAR 2 Jr from Grand Coulee, WA, taken from a tuner video I recorded at my grandma's house nearly two weeks ago.

What do you guys think?

[TWCJim]

Recently, I did a new re-editing of all of the 33 Weatherscan music tracks. I still had all of the master audio recordings on my computer, which were recorded back in 2011 when I was living in Spokane and had Comcast and Weatherscan. I figured, what the hey, and decided to re-edit out the interrupting Vocal Local narrations.

To go along with the new re-edits, I also decided to make new CD artwork, yet again.    This time, I made new artwork for the front and the back covers. Here they are:


Front Cover




Back Cover





The artwork was designed using Adobe Photoshop CS5, as always.    IMO, this is probably the best version of the Wxscan Music CD Artwork that I've ever made, compared to the previous versions. 

[TWCJim]

My TWC advisory scroll concepts:


Orange:




Yellow:




Red:




IMO, TWC should have used these concepts instead of what they have now because the text is sometimes hard to read, and the news ticker that runs below the crawl creates a distraction whenever I'm trying to read the weather advisory.

[TWCJim]

Another concept of the TWC station ID segment with the current graphics, this time redone from scratch.

[TWCJim]

What if Gannett Company owned The Weather Channel? If Gannett did ever buy TWC, the graphics would probably be changed to match the graphics on the other Gannett-owned TV news stations. Here are my concepts of what that might look like.

Live Programming

Local



Satellite



Commercials & Long-Form

For these concepts, the TWC feed would be shrinked slightly to reveal another TWC logo as well as the 'Local On The 8s' logo (old one) on the sidebar.

Local




Satellite



All of these concept designs were created using Adobe Photoshop CS5. Everything was done from scratch, using a screenshot image of a real Gannett-owned TV news station as the guide layer. It took me pretty much all afternoon to make all of these images.

And there you have it. What do you guys think?

[crazybangles]

Looks very good.

[weatherfan_2013]

Looks very nice! Hope you don't mind but I created an extension on what I would like to see based on Gannet. This is the satellite (national) feed.

[TWCJim]

Looks very nice! Hope you don't mind but I created an extension on what I would like to see based on Gannet. This is the satellite (national) feed.

I like it, looks great. Well done! 

[weatherfan_2013]

I showed @daveclark on twitter the gannet graphic format and how they should use in the next graphic update and he said

we actually agree. Design updates are hard on TV, but they're coming!

Maybe there's a chance of similar graphics in the future?