I know I’m not going to impress any of you Blender wizards with my crummy noob render, but I enjoyed making it and found Blender the perfect tool for realizing my idea, which otherwise I didn’t know how to do… So I share it here anyway
I even used renderlayers and seperate lighting only on the text, which for a noob like me was quite an accomplishment
Perfection (out of order)
Apart from that, I do mainly vector art with Inkscape, but I do enjoy fooling around with Blender and am making some more stuff in it (all NPR).
Font used was Bebas (freeware)
Materials from this generous Blendswap material library by elbrujodelatribu
Gears made with the Blender add-on and then tweaked a bit.