Hi There =) ! Thank you for the wonderful wonderful comments and favs and likes on my renders. Couple of weeks had passed since her trip to the animal sanctuary to catch the 2 culprits who had killed an elephant there. I had already passed on to Miho some suggestion that were made like Faemike55 had said the 2 needed to work in an animal rehab center to know what really goes on. Miho had spoken to the officer in charge there to get the 2 of them to work in animal rehab center every day for a couple of hours once the pain and agony had stopped. And if they showed no sign of learning or had no interest, could he increase the jail time (as many had suggested) ? The officer in charge was happy to oblige. He didn't like poachers and those who killed the animals for fun. Miho had gotten busy with work again. She had businesses to run, charities to look after, researches to do in vast array of fields. But today she took a break and decided to volunteer at a beach as a lifeguard. One of her friend was a lifeguard there and Miho on and off when she had the time would volunteer there as a lifeguard. She enjoyed it and she was a fully qualified lifeguard and the only one who could swim against a rip tide as though it was still water. Hence they always appreciated it when she was there as sooner or later someone would get caught in the rip tide and panic. Not many people were there yet. So Miho's friend decided to take some photos of Miho for Miho. Miho was looking rather sexy in that red swimming costume and well as usual those around were looking at her. About this render: I saw this swimming costume in DAZ. It immediately reminded me of Baywatch. So had to buy it to do a beach scene with Miho wearing that. For some reason I find that particular swimming costume very sexy even though it does not reveal much. Probably because of the high cut around the hips and the moment I put it on Miho, she did look sexy. I added a truck prop I had and colored it the way I remembered seeing in Baywatch. I did decide to use a darker color for the bumpers and side mirrors instead of the chrome. The reflection on the bumper was a bit distorted and an eye sore and that area being in sharp focus needed to tone it down. Added a surfboard at the rear of the truck. I also added sand to the tires via the technique I had been using of late - noise nodes as opacity and bump mixed with the original sand texture. Though it needs more work I think. Then added in the other characters looking at Miho and some props to fill the background to complete the scene. This time to make Miho's feet appear in a more realistic way in the sand, I added sand to her feet - but I did not use Photoshop to paint them, I actually did it within DAZ/Octane plugin with a little help from ZBrush. Once I had posed Miho, I took her into ZBrush and masked parts of her feet and created a new geometry from it. I tweaked the geometry a bit to make it more uneven. Then I exported this new geometry to DAZ. It appeared like a badly cut shoe. After that I applied my sand material to that and again used a noise filter as the opacity to create different degree of sand covering her feet in an realistic way. Looks okay for my first attempt at it. Didn't bother doing the same for the other characters in the scene though. Maybe in the future renders I will do so. I also tired on a new hairdo on Miho. It suits her face nicely I think. Though in this render it kinda lost details from the cheeks below. Need to look at the bump node. But after the long render time I was in no mood to change the hair and redo the render. Btw. this is Miho 4.0. I spent considerable time again in the last few days on her face and body. Tweaking to make her look a bit more younger and have a curvier body. Blackbirdx61 had mentioned that he liked the thumb and it might have been better to do a closeup scene of Miho or use panels to so the closeup in my last render (and before too if I remember correctly). Actually 99% of the time my thumb is a 100% view crop of the actual render. All my recent renders are big. At least 1600x900 landscape or 900x1200 portrait. If anyone views the full image they will see Miho at the size you see Miho in the thumb. I haven't gotten into panel based rendering yet. Not sure if I would be doing any panel based renders any time soon though they do help to visualize more of the story or probably show the scenes from different angles at the least. After 9 hours of renders and the noise in her neck area still not clearing, I decided to stop the render and upload it anyway. Whenever I use this sand materials I have extremely long render times. I need to see what I can do to make it noise free faster. I know one of them is to use caustic blur setting but that reduces the sharpness of the image. I have used it a bit here and there is bit of loss in the sharpness already. 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 - "Karma bites.... hard !" Click on the thumbnail to view. Enjoy =) ! Rajib