Modeled after an original artwork found on the web. I'm not linking it because it is on an image selling site which I don't want to promote.
Rendered with Cycles, 500 passes. Yes, there are some artifacts in the middle which I could not remove, probably due to the fact that the mesh has a circular structure which was then deformed with the bend modifier to give it a shield-like shape.
For lighting I used GI with the Piazza San Marco HDRI from OpenFootage.net, and an additional orange light mesh to the left of the camera. The background is the usual L-shaped plane.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
