MetGraphics

03/15/2022

Howdy folks! I don't use Facebook much for MetGraphics these days, and have moved to Discord for all updates and information. You can join here: https://discord.gg/PHYR99Xte2

Shoot me an email at [email protected] for any questions if Discord isn't your cup of tea. Apologies for any missed messages to folks here.

Check out the MetGraphics Comrades Committee community on Discord - hang out with 212 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

04/10/2021

New: Severe Risks by Location, a new way to display overall severe risk & specific hazards for individual locations with a variety of different style options.

https://www.metgraphics.net/severebylocation/

On an unrelated note, if you need to get in contact with me for any reason, be sure to email me or hop in the MetGraphics Discord server. I don't hop on Facebook too often (yeah, yeah, call me one of "those people" 😅) and get back to folks fairly quick via email or on Discord.

Join the MetGraphics Comrades Committee Discord server here: https://discord.gg/JHHceausMN

Ensuring an audience understands a forecast map displaying important information such as severe weather risks can be a tedious task that still may leave some folks guessing. By displaying the names of specific locations and the risks forecast in these locations, you can feel more confident that more...

04/07/2020

New: WxIndicators, a huge set of keys and indicators for a wide range of different weather hazards and happenings. This is the largest individual project surpassing map packages due to the crazy amount of files and variants included with the project.

A wide range of sliders and indicators for precipitation, hazards/threats, risks levels, and intensity levels for plethora of weather types and categories.

02/20/2020

New: Winter Weather Threats III. This utilizes the design elements from Severe Threats V, although the individual threat bars (9 included currently) are all uniquely color-coded - and use a 5 step risk theme.

Alongside Severe Threats V, Winter Weather Threats III brings together relaxed modern design themes with a splash of shine to create an easy-to-digest threat analysis. The upper third is the same as used in Severe Threats V, with a wintery themed background included and modified hazard bars & a rena...

02/13/2020

While working on the winter version of a weather hazards template, I've been testing some other ways to display risk and have ended up with a slider system. Look for the final version of this becomming available here fairly soon.

02/08/2020

New: Severe Threats V, a vibrant, eye-catching severe weather threat display template that includes a wide selection of background, and two different risk level keys.

This severe threat display package brings together unique threat bars, a modern upper third, and several different background options to help deliver critical forecast information with a splash of flare that delivers the message elegantly.

02/05/2020

Some progress on a new threat display system for severe (and probably winter storms as well).

12/28/2019

New: T56 "Momentum", a forecast template package that includes several different panel & tile designs for both multi-day forecasts, and a couple different takes on single-day forecasts.

12/18/2019

It's been a while, comrades!
Here's a new upper third, "radiant", and the first new project of several I expect to release over the next 2 - 3 months.

https://www.metgraphics.net/radiant-upper-third/

04/06/2019

New: the NEXTGEN Map Pack, for U.S. forecasters.

This new U.S. map pack brings you a package of maps that is loaded with all sorts of new data to help your forecasts stand out. Every map was manually edited and put together, ensuring a solid data layout for each one.

With additional updates planned this month, the NEXTGEN Map Pack will dominate the next 1 - 2 months ahead with new content becoming available before the end of the month.

04/04/2019

Converting static vectors into individual stylized layers and manually adding dozens of cities and interstate icons to create a crisp, professional map of the southeast.

This is sped up 1000%, and took just under a hour to create and export the needed PNG layers for non-Photoshop users.

By the time I'm done exporting and finalizing maps, I'll have individually exported over 400 PNG layers and worked through approximently 500 vector files to get them looking like a proper map.

04/01/2019

A speedart of a regional map coming with the next package of refreshed U.S. maps.

In this 420% sped up footage, you can watch static vector files get transitioned into a fully-layered, stylized map. This was a thirty-minute process, howeve...