sounds like you answered the question yourself lol. If you want to do it yourself and also have professional results, you'll just have to git gud and do it. Become a professional. Some feedback; I don't think her face looks 12-14, but IMO her head is too big in relation to her body, which will give that look, and more time…
Just a random thought: It might be better to aim ahead of your competitors rather than be content to catch up to their previous milestones, and simply lift pages from last season's Autodesk playbook. I actually subbed to Modo indie 901, because I figured that for that price, I could afford to keep it around just for…