This is my personal Insignia/ Company Logo that I have created. I have created it in Blender 2.66a. Total time worked on it including designing and modeling the insignia, setting up the background, lighting and taking the digital photos are all within 3 days of work with an estimated total hours of 20-30 hours.

The main logo was designed using Bezier Curves, I used both Diffuse and Specular material layers with ramping colors adding a moderate to heavy transparency layer on top. The background was created using an open sided scaled down sloping box, duplicated up-scaled then encased on itself. It has more complex Diffuse and Specular material layers mainly seen in the outer edges of the logo itself. The background also has a high Mirror layer to bounce light around creating the halo and yellowish gold color gradient. I also place 4 spot lights in equal distances around the interior to equalize light distribution.

This is by no means any kind of professional work, This is me testing my creativity within a 3D environment.