Books, nature and magic

Another side of the model. You can tell that the plant loves the camera. I recently took a course on Maya, and wow, I can't believe I was missing in all the fun! This is my final project of it, a model based on the artwork of Yuliya Belaya. I already had an idea of how 3D modeling work, as I have some prior experience with Zbrush, but creating this in Maya is a whole different thing. There are some tools that I'll get better at as time goes by (I'm looking at you, Bezier Tool) but overall, I'm very happy with the result. One of the critical aspects of this project was to make it as close as possible to the original model in that view, so I had to adjust the base to have that strange perspective, so it was a little more prominent at the back. Looking back I can see that maybe I could have made a couple more camera and object adjustments to make it better, but time was of the essence so I had to deliver on time to keep on with the assignments.
I now have a better idea of how to work objects and think about the process of making them.