Looney Toones Inspired Renderings

Today we have some renderings of Fire Station 11 inspired by Looney Toones backgrounds.

Mad Skillz

My mad time wasting skillz have resulted in something useful, competent rendering skills. Below are a some snapshots of a 3-D model I created with SketchUp for a client. One day soon I'll clean them up and put them into some kind of order.

Birds-eye. Check it out, it's squarish

Birds-eye of structure, HVAC, Electrical and stairs. Ooooh, steel frame.

Front Elevation. It's a little tiny, but you get the idea. It says "resurgens" over the apparatus bay doors. Check out the sweet planter, and the 40' flag pole. "Resurgens" is a real world, it's local to Atlanta, but it's a real word.

Facade facing the highway. How do you make a square building interesting? Attack of the super graphics!

Rear elevation.

West Elevation.

Perspective looking north west

Perspective looking southwest. This is the view drivers would have as the exit the highway.

Stop-sign perspective, Looking Northeast.

View from lobby into day room. You'll see that guy again.

Exciting, "Man waiting for bathroom #3 to open up" perspective

Apparatus bay.

Ready Mades

FFL Season Re-Cap - Scores

FFL Season Re-Cap - Position Comparisn

Below is a comparison of the typical output each team had availble to them based on their final roster. If a number is highlighted in green it means the team did exceptionally well, if it is highlighted in read, the team did exceptionally poorly.

The first chart shows the overall strength of a team. The point total is generated by adding the starting kickers, tight-end, and defense's points to the first three quarterbacks, first four running backs, and first five wide receivers on each roster. This gives teams credit for having useful depth.

The following charts show each position.

FFL Season Re-Cap - Players

This is a list of the top 250 players, from best to worst. Each player's typical weekly score was compared to a "replacement level score" to get a value which I used to compare players at different positions.

1-34, Great Players

38-74 Good, but not Great players

A little smaller, but these guys are only average, to replacement level 75-130

So we missed a few, 142 - 182, bad players you can play in a tight spot

192-293, missed a few more, these guys are bad.

224-250, terrible, terrible players

FFL Seson Re-Cap -Teams

Below is every teams final roster. To the right of each player is there typical score over 14 games. Some players scores will be surprisingly low because they missed a lot of games. If a players name is highlighted red it means that players typical score failed to crack the top 250.

Bill Green's team is rendered in Steelier black and gold. too bad his team didn't live up to that standard.


Cheese's team is orange, for no apparent reason.


As the person who put this pointless report together, I claim beautiful old gold.

Greg Bates team is colored Caucasian beige.

It's Honolulu blue for Ian's team. Matt Millen is Jealous of you Ian.

Adam's team is rendered in Georgia State Blue. Here's to the 2016 Car Quest Bowl!

Iowa Pink for Chris Hall. Just trying to get in his head one last time before the semis.

Nitnay Blue circa 2005 for Mikey.

Eagle Green for Chris Long

Redskin garnet and gold for Robby.

Medley 3

A new picture from the Medley series.

The Bandit

Multi-talented Mexican artist who began as a dancer before turning to acting and eventually writing, directing and producing motion pictures. Alfonso Arau made his feature directing debut with the Mexican-lensed "The Barefoot Eagle" (1967), before playing what would be the first in a series of somewhat stereotypical characters for Hollywood in Sam Peckinpah's landmark Western "The Wild Bunch" (1969). Subsequently, the thin, handsome and often mustached Arau alternated between acting assignments in the US and producing, directing, writing and starring in his own projects in Mexico. Arau's better known American credits include Kirk Douglas' "Posse" (1975), as a bandit, "Romancing the Stone" (1984), as a friendly drug-dealing bandit, and "Three Amigos!" (1986), as El Guapo the "jefe" of a group of bandits.

Diagram of Main House

This is a diagram of the ordering principles which underlie the main house seen in the previous two posts. The entire building is contained by a four foot by four foot grid.

Home is where the Hearth is.

Today's post is a follow up to yesterday's post. I cleaned up the plans, elevations, and sections that went with the perspective I posted yesterday. This house had a real client and was actually built. You can find pictures of the house on our business website studioala.net.

The floor plan is based on two squares placed side by side. The squares are then divided into quarters, created by three axes. Along the northern axis a grand space is formed running from an entry court at the rear, under a stair landing, through the dining room, and out a full-height window. The central axis runs down the middle of the house. A rear door the kitchen galley, the elevator, the hearth, the front door and front railing lay along it. The southern axis runs through a rear door, the bar area of the kitchen, the living room and a recessed reading nook. The three part division is reflected in the front elevation which was designed to resemble the unfinished facade of an Italian Renaissance church. The silhouette with the slightly off center chimney also resembles a child's drawing of a "house" and is a reference to archetypal ideas of home.

The site slopes down from North to South, which necessitated the use of several retaining walls. This created a stepped design in section. This gives the -1 Floor and the 0 Floor direct access to the exterior.

I'm quite pleased with how the drawings turned out. The grey, surprisingly, adds just a touch of interest to drawings. I'm particularly pleased with the 0 Floor drawing.