Weatherlover's Artwork

[toxictwister00]

This is what I guess you could call an HD Local Forecast concept (It could work for SD also) The design is loosely based off of KDKA-TV's weather forecast graphics. I say "loosely" because the color schemes are not all exactly the way they are in the video I watched, I tweaked them around to make it slightly different. 

KDKA Launches HD Weather Graphics

[toxictwister00]

This is what I have so far...

Local Forecast Concept - Pittsburgh, PA

[toxictwister00]

L3rds based off of WRAL-TV's L3rds.

Sorry about the pictures not being that good, I just googled Heather Tesch and these were the best ones I could find. Also I think I should have shrunk the font on weather.com, but that's ok, it's just a rough draft.

The blue area is where the LDL would be.

[WeatherWitness]

L3rds based off of WRAL-TV's L3rds.

Sorry about the pictures not being that good, I just googled Heather Tesch and these were the best ones I could find. Also I think I should have shrunk the font on weather.com, but that's ok, it's just a rough draft.

The blue area is where the LDL would be.

Is that what I think it is...an NBC logo next to the TWC one?!?

Nah, I'm just kidding.   Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't done this yet.  I really like your L3rds, Tavores, great job!

[toxictwister00]

Thank you, I only did that because WRAL-TV is a NBC affiliate and they had the NBC logo next to their logo and I figured why not do the same here. It's gonna happen sooner or later, but then again I said the same thing about 3 years ago...so...

[toxictwister00]

Revisions - L3rds by color theme
Burnt Orange or Red; can be used for severe weather events as well - Early Mornings (First Outlook/Your Weather Today/Weekend View)
Yellow/Orange - Late Mornings/Afternoons (Day Planner/Weekend Now)
Blue - Evenings/Overnight (WeatherCenter Live/PM Edition/Sunrise Weather)

The LDL is not exactly the way i would actually picture it, I just put something there to give you an "idea" of what it would be like along with the L3rds right above.



Also, there's no reason for this picture except to give me something to laugh at hilariously.   

[toxictwister00]

Rough Drafts of Various Forecast Products for My LF Concept

NOTE: With this being considered a test video, I didn't bother to update any information in this video, the exception being the Dense Fog Advisory which was issued just before I rendered this video so that forecast product was very last minute.

Changes I made since the Pittsburgh, PA LF video I did of the same design (see video response for that video if you want to compare differences.)

- Removed some of the transparency from the middle part of the background so it shows up as a darker blue.

-Changed the city backdrop from Pittsburgh to Atlanta (pretty obvious change)

- LDL changed from white to light blue. In consequence, the font color for the ad crawl also changed from black to white. (This design of the LDL is experimental and is subject to change)

- the text "weather.com" added to the titlebar next to TWC's logo on some forecast products.

-New Forecast Products
Weather Bulletin (Rough Draft; city backdrop may be changed to a backdrop of a thunderstorm or some form of severe weather.)

Metro Conditions

Regional Conditions (This might change to "Southeast Observations or Conditions")

Radars (Under construction)

Air Quality (Subject to change to Health and Garden or Lifestyles Report)

Airport Delays (Subject to change to Airport Conditions)

SONG: George Howard - Grover's Groove 

[toxictwister00]

UPDATED (After about 10 months since the last time I worked on this in March 2011) 

[texasstooge]

UPDATED (After about 10 months since the last time I worked on this in March 2011) 

Nice job!! Brings back the good ol' days.

[toxictwister00]

DirecTV LF App Concept

Graphically, this will look familiar because it's essentially started from the most recent LF design concept I've worked on, but I made some significant tweaks and I believe this could go for a new generation of the LF app DirecTV subscribers get to see. I still like the idea of using a city backdrop rather than some boring generic background, so that's why I kept that in. I forgot to include the radar so that's why it's not there.

*The only forecast products updated is the Right Now Screen (First one) and the 7 Day Forecast.

Also I threw in some animation, but I'm not sure if the real LF app on DirecTV can handle something like that or not.

[Zach]

The DirecTV LF cannot handle animation, let alone an ad crawl 

[toxictwister00]

The DirecTV LF cannot handle animation, let alone an ad crawl 

I didn't think it could, but I wasn't sure and like I said about the ad crawl, it's just there for this video. I don't have any intentions of keeping it on there.

[toxictwister00]

This is the final design of this concept, I also removed all animation.

Some other small changes
- I removed the time off of the orange/blue tab, leaving just the temp there.
- Changed the blue shapes on the "Right Now" screens from rectangles to modified parallelograms.
- Added the radar which I forgot to add in last time.

All info was accurate and valid as of February 15, 2012 7:58pm EDT.

Song - William Green - Dirty South

DirecTV Local Forecast App Concept (FINAL DRAFT)

[Dr.Thunderstorm]

i like all of the artwork you posted so far. keep it up!

[toxictwister00]

i like all of the artwork you posted so far. keep it up!

Thank you, I always try my best to make them as great as I can when different ideas flow through my head and I appreciate getting positive feedback when I do.