I use personal projects to teach myself new skills and also to use as a personal gauge of how far I’ve come in the years since I first sat down and learned 3D. I don’t do many and it’s been way too long since my last.
I’d love to go back sometime and do “updated” versions of these sometime, but in the meantime, It’s fun to look back and see big mistakes that were made and drive home how much I’ve learned since.