Hah! One of my all-time favorite movies. Well done. Great spot lighting on the food, and I like the brief case in the back. Marsellus Wallace will be wanting that back soon. 
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@NP5 I would love to see you continue and finish those crates and sand bags. And bring in those zulus 
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Thanks. I suspect I will retain it as something to toy with. But may feel the need to start afresh with a decent topology human. Never really happy in low poly. Plus I have just discovered making clothing with real thickness makes all sorts of difficulty weight painting the rig influence. So it’s all been a learning experience. Or avoid auto weights.
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Thank you! Felt like it was important to include the briefcase as a light source, still to this day wonder what was inside.
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Oh, how nice! And thanks for reminding about denoise… I wanted to find it.
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Here added denoise! Looks better!
I stopped studying the course at sculpting. Because my creation was too weird. Now I took my husband’s graphic tablet and will try to use it, though I am not used to it…
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The new character course (or updated), handles the sculpting very good. Even I got reasonable sculpt results.
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I didn’t know it but have needed it already a few times - thank you! 
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Or do naked characters instead. I am not talking about only creating nudes but also animals, aliens etc.
It’s in my list.
Just got inspired 
(Nice lighting was really hard though, because of weird reflections…)
Cycles:
Eevee:
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Love it, and yes the Eevee render does seem over reflective. I do like the Cycles render though. Nicely done.
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That looks great! Would you mind sharing how you did the inscription?
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Yes, the problem with Eevee is, that it reflects the HDRI (or if you turn on Screen Space Reflection it starts looking really really weird.) And I coudn’t make light probes work 
If anybody has any tips how to solve this issue, I would be more than grateful! ^^
Sure, I’ll try my best to explain! 
I started out with a black-white square texture:
Then I used this tutorial for the carving in the metal (by creating a normal in Blender from a plane with displace modifier):
For the inscription to glow I simply used the inital black-white texture and then used color ramp to get color to the black parts (and RGB curves to tweak it a bit) (For emissions: black = none, color = emission in this color)
I have two mixed inputs, because I wanted a orange-red edge for the inscription.
In Eevee you only need the part I circled red and can directly connect it to the Emission in the Principled BSDF, then just activate Bloom and you can easily choose a color there too.
But for a ring, I just couldn’t really make the reflections work
In Cycles, you need a separate Emission node and to use the “Glare” node in Composition and set it to "Fog Glow " instead of “Streaks”. Tweak with the settings and that way you get a Eevee-like Bloom from your Emissions.
Here’s the node setup (if my explanations didn’t make sense or you have other questions, please just let me know!):
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Thanks for the detailed explanation! I’ve tried some similar things before to mixed results, so I was curious how you did it. I will have to check out that tutorial too.
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The poll is closed, and this week’s winner is @Blest! Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for the next topic.
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Thanks! That’s only because I have a vacation now ). I voted for Sblendid. OK, the new theme is “Travel impressions”! - Something that reminds you of a place you’ve visited and would like to return to.
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Congratulations - you, the teenage witch and grumpy old Salem definatley earned it
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