I started off with making the mesh for the flag simulation along the human size model as reference to real-world size.

I made the flag a bit damaged to have that pirate flag look.

The idea of making a pirate flag got lost somewhere so I decided on to the next best thing, Something that kept me waiting. hehe

Next, would be the excruciating painful part where I tried to implement the nCloth into the mesh

After Maya crashed for the 1000th time, I decided these are how my setup will be.

I also decided to throw in some desert lighting along with a fitting music as well.

Here's the tree along with the human figure as reference.

These are the settings I've tweaked for the tree's appearance

Not to forget the Turbulence, for the wind simulation

I set the glue to 1 at frame 1 and 0.764 at frame 80 so the leaves don't fall right away.

And finally, with the addition of a Backdrop and of course a fitting music.