We still on it... The journey so far has been tiring, frustrating, challenging, fun and on and on😪. i am currently practicing different cycles; walk, run, jump etc. With each practice, i get to understand more of the software as well as shortcuts. The graph editor is turning out to be fun too.
In between learning, i try my hand on modelling which is kinda fun to me. The above image was modelled in Maya and rendered with Arnold with a cylinder as the base image. The texturing is also done in Maya. The part i like most about the crown are the jewels; the way the lighting affected them.