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How to Make WeatherSTAR XL 1998-2006 Icons (UPDATED)

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March 28, 2025
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I honestly but here's a tutorial of how to make WeatherSTAR XL from January 1998 to December 2006 icons on The Weather Channel. You can make a weather icon (sun, clouds, rain, snow, etc.) but you can animate in After Effects and use the shapes to make weather icons. but I draw icons on Illustrator. But how can we do this?

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How to find HEX colors?

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Anubhav M

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Hello @tristan_7446,

Please try the suggestions in this video tutorial on using HEX colors in Illustrator (https://adobe.ly/4cmG18G) and let us know if it helps.

Anubhav

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Can I have a colors please?

Monika Gause

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Just pick the colors from the templates you are posting.

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What is the color of the sunny icon?

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I need to use the Sunny icon please

Monika Gause

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A circle with a radial gradient, surrounded by some triangles with linear gradients. And then some outer glow perhaps.

Conrad_C

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If you want them to be resolution-independent (no jaggies at any size, rotation, or other transformation) then you should draw them in Illustrator. If you want them to look painterly as in the Cloudy.png example you attached, use advanced Illustrator shading techniques like the gradient meshes suggested by Monika Gause. After you import them into After Effects, if you want to make sure they are always full resolution regardless of how you transform them when animating, be sure to enable Continuous Rasterization for those Illustrator layers.

You can also draw them in Photoshop, as layers. But you may want to draw them at 2x or 3x of the typical pixel height and width you would show them on screen, to allow some extra resolution to help avoid visible pixelation during transformations.

I would prefer the Illustrator way, to keep them vector. It will give you a lot more flexibility in After Effects.

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Cloudy.png

Monika Gause

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Would be best to use Photoshop for that kind of images.

If you insist in creating them vector based, you will have to use gradient meshes.

Monika Gause

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Probably you can post some sample images?

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