Hi There =) ! Thank you for the wonderful wonderful comments and favs and likes on my renders. The story continues from the last render... The full moon was shining through the gaps in the tree top. The creature did not know what to make of Miho. It was afraid but it was its duty as the leader of the pack to protect the pack from the strange being. It could sense the strange being in front of it had no fear. Slowing it circled Miho as they did their preys before attacking them. As it came nearer and nearer, Miho turned towards it. The creature could sense that Miho did not mean it any harm and felt calm, something that was the opposite of what had happened when they had last encountered the strange beings like her. With still a bit of apprehension it slowly came towards Miho as though drawn to her. It was no longer thinking about attacking her. It extended its arm towards the strange being. The strange being touched its arm reassuringly. The creature felt absolute calm and instantly knew the strange being did not came here to harm them and actually would protect them... As Miho put her hand on the creatures hand she saw a vision of what had happened here and why the creature was so apprehensive and afraid of her at the beginning... She found out that these creatures were curious by nature. When a couple of men had stumbled upon this place, the creatures had came out to see the strange beings they had never seen before. They had felt instant fear and hatred from these strange beings and the strange being killed a lot of them immediately. So to protect their pack the creatures attacked and had killed all 3 of the strange beings. Since that time the creatures lived in fear of encountering the strange beings again. Miho felt sad. She knew the men must have opened fire with their guns the moment they saw these creatures as these creatures looked dangerous even though they were not... She reassured the creature that they will not be disturb by strange beings like her again and only she would be the one who would visit from time to time. The creature bowed and slowly backed off from her and went into the entrance cut into the rocks to reassure the others. Miho decided that she would not share details of this place with anyone. She wanted to let the creatures as well as all other animals, birds, insects, etc live on without the fear of man in the jungle. Her hi-tech shields would prevent anyone from entering the jungle and would also keep the jungle separated from mankind's destructive behavior... She packed up her stuff and put on her jetpack and flew back to her base. She said to herself that she would visit this place again someday to explore it further and visit the new friends she had made..... About this render: After the last render I had to render another scene to bring an end to the story so thought of doing something opposite of what we generally see in the artworks here and other places where the hero / heroine kills the hideous creature they encounter with their swords / guns / spears or other weapon. The aim was to show that we generally create perception just by looks even though we may be totally wrong and just looking beyond the looks may pleasantly surprise us. I purposefully changed the skin texture on the creature to give it a even more hideous look. I also put a metal texture for its teeth and nails to make it more menacing. I increased the ambient light a bit more to show the creature more clearly and the bluish tint goes well with the full moon light comment at the beginning. This one also took over 2 hours to render. I think I am going back to my fast renders for the time being :p ! Day light scene for the next few renders at least ;) ! Patience quota for long renders has gone to 0 for now... need to recharge it. Hope you all like the render ! Rendered in Daz Studio using the Octane Plugin. No post work done. Do zoom in to see details. My previous render - "On another adventure" Click on the thumbnail to view. Enjoy =) ! Rajib