🏈 I've been working on my BDS renderings lately; check it out

[mhardiman]

This is long, but....

I know I’ve posted my renderings in past forums; Claysbamapage and CrimsonCorner, but I do not believe I’ve ever posted them here. Since it’s slow with the off season and spring practice is still a few weeks away I thought I’d share my Bryant Denny Stadium renderings with y’all. I began drawing BDS using MicroStation (a Computer Aided Drafting program; CAD) back in 2005; over the years I’ve added more detail, studying and fixing mistakes I’ve made and adding Expansions that have come since. I set them up in a timeline as in a drawing file per addition; 1929 when the original fifty row west grandstand was constructed, 1938 a twenty-five row grandstand was added on the east, 1950 the east grandstand got an additional twenty-five rows added to match the west grandstand at fifty rows, 1961 both east and west grandstands grew to sixty-one rows and a new pressbox (double wide in the sky type), 1966 the north and south endzone seats were added to complete the bowl, 1988 the west upperdeck was added with new pressbox, 1998 the east upperdeck and skyboxes was added, 2006 we got the north upperdeck and last we got the south upperdeck in 2010. My profession details me to do CAD work from time-to-time (Not stadium design though) and recently I got refreshed with a newer version of MicroStation, and its rendering capabilities has been greatly improved from its predecessors. I had to share, and if y’all have seen my renderings over the past (my 2010 addition renderings floated around different Bama forums, and apparently Mal Moore had seen them too) you haven’t seen them in this kind of quality. Previously they looked low quality and very pixalized (if that’s a word). I’m only posting 1988-present, I plan to study up and add better detail to what old Denny Stadium looked like in those years, so if you have old photos of the stadium from pre-1988 please post or PM me. Things I’m looking for is the old pressbox, the scoreboards, the temporary endzone bleachers, when did the bleachers go from wood to capped with fiberglass to aluminum, when did they install the chairbacks below the pressbox also I remember seeing photos where BAMA was painted on the bleacher in one or both of the endzones. Hope you like.
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1988; west upperdeck addition
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From north endzone bleachers looking southwest

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1998; east upperdeck addition
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Aerial looking northwest

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Aerial looking southeast

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Aerial looking south

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Field level view looking southeast

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2006; north upperdeck addition
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Aerial looking southwest<o></o>

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From east upperdeck looking west<o></o>

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Aerial looking northwest<o></o>

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Aerial looking northeast<o></o>

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Field level looking northeast<o></o>

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Lower bowl level looking northwest<o></o>

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[mhardiman]

2010; South upperdeck addition
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Ground level (almost) looking north<o></o>

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Ground level (almost) looking northeast<o></o>

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From south upperdeck looking northeast<o></o>

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Above south upperdeck looking northwest<o></o>

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From east upperdeck looking west<o></o>

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From north upperdeck looking south<o></o>

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From east side lower bowl looking southwest<o></o>

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From North Zone looking south<o></o>

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From north endzone bleachers looking south<o></o>

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From northwest corner of endzone bleachers looking southeast<o></o>

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From field level looking south<o></o>

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[mhardiman]

Future or things I’d like to see done; reconstruction of west upperdeck. Matching the east upperdeck with three levels of skybox’s, new pressbox, bleacher seats in the upperdeck (would add 3,000-4,000 seats) and I like the exterior of the new south upperdeck expansion so much I re-clad the east and west exterior with the same style. Replacing the west upperdeck chairbacks with bleacher seats may be a tough task; from my understanding before we added the south upperdeck Mal was looking for ways to add seats quick and due to the economy on the cheap, so Mal thought of replacing the west upperdeck chairbacks with bleacher seating. From my understanding they ran that by the Tide Pride members who have seats there, and they did not go for it.
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Aerial looking southwest<o></o>

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Aerial looking southeast<o></o>

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Aerial looking northeast<o></o>

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Ground level looking northwest<o></o>

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From southeast corner of lower bowl looking northwest<o></o>

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From west upperdeck looking southeast<o></o>

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From east upperdeck looking west<o></o>

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From north endzone bleachers looking south<o></o>

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From northeast corner of lower bowl looking southwest<o></o>

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From east field level concourse looking southwest<o></o>

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Field level behind visitors sideline looking southwest<o></o>

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Field level looking south<o></o>

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[planomateo]

Impressive and very cool!

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[Bamabww]

If I can find them, I have some early 80's photos of Bryant Denny I'd be glad to share. If I can find them. Great job on these. You sir, are the man.