Woaw this is truly amazing progress, I haven't checked you for a while.
I think you've lost a bit of the horrific aspect of your creature in the last steps. The darker values made it closer to us, the thread was more obvious than in your last steps, you could gain a lot by darken the lower part of his body which look much further than its ribs.
Really good render so far.
Made a couple of fairly significant changes to composition. Decided to go more true to the intial sketch with golem not fully in frame, but that forced me to move the emblem to a new place. I think it looks nice in the "chest" - and even makes narrative sense, like a symbolic heart of the animated creature. Or something like that -)
Had to rethink lighting on the golem a bit because of that - but I think it works better this way.
@nesokaiyoh - Thank you! It was a bit hectic process by the end but I'm glas I pulled it off! -)
@cedricgo - Thanks! Makes me glad to hear that, means I've put time into the concept phase not for nothing -)
@pylua - Thank you! Happy to hear that -)