The story continues.... The wild boar was not a problem with Miho being around. All animals instantly felt safe around Miho and took her to be their queen and leader, someone to be respected and in any case Miho could communicate with all living being so there was no danger of the wild boar attacking us. So after finishing going through the so called haunted house and finding all sort of personal items left behind and nothing spooky Miho decided to try and trace any living members of the family and tell them about this place. Probably they did not even know this house existed. At least they would have the lost photos and other personal items... We then headed back to her loft. It was late noon and we cooked lunch and then all three of us ate together. While eating one of her computers emitted a alert sound. This one had been tasked to look for arms dealers who worked with the evil corporation. It was analyzing all known locations of arms dealers and also following every staff of the evil corporation as they traveled around the world to see if they made any contact with any arms dealer or their associates. The evil corporation was making a lot of money selling arms to the crackpot dictators through a few arms dealers and it didn't really care that people were being killed by the dozens every hour of every day with their weapons... Soon there will be no one left to kill if this continued and Miho wanted to put an end to it... The computer relayed some coordinated where such a meeting was happening. It had tracked one of the evil corporation's men to a place know in the criminal world as "No mans land". This place was in the middle of a vast desert and no government forces of that country ever set foot near that place as they were bound to be killed. The arms dealer and his mercenaries were heavily armed with weapons which most armies of the world did not have. And they could not bomb this place as the arms dealer had been clever enough to create a place where adventures could come and rest while on their journey on camel back through this vast desert and at any given time there where many such adventures around this place. And also the arms dealer always made sure that at least a few of the well connected corrupt politicians where always there so that no one would be able to take any action against that place.... To him entertaining these corrupt politicians everyday was a small price to pay for security of this place. And so it had become a heaven for all sorts of criminals and corrupt people and their play mates.... Miho decided we were going their after lunch to put an end to that place.... But first she was going to get all the information out of the arms dealer who ran that place. The arms dealer was careful and never stored any data on any computer for the fear of getting hacked and he also did not do any deal over the phone for the fear of being listened to. Everything was hand written and kept in a ledger in a big safe and all dealing where face to face. Once we finished lunch, I packed up the gears Miho kept in all her homes for such missions on short notice and loaded them up on the pickup. The wolf and Miho came down a few minutes later and Miho was looking rather gorgeous in a white and orange short mini dress... She was dressed to kill and well I kinda had the idea why she was dressed liked that... Poor arms dealer and his henchmen, they did not know what was going to happen to them in a short while.... We drove to the hidden hyper plane and loaded up the gears on to the hyper plane. It was going to be a very sort 10 minutes flight on the hyper plane to pick up a fancy Range Rover from one of her bases and then another 10 minutes to a place near that "No mans land" where we would leave the hyper plane and travel the rest of the distance on the Ranger Rover. We had to make an entrance to that place as though we were extremely rich... and well in reality Miho was though she never showed it. Hence the fancy Range Rover. And though she had no interest in any designer labels and actually preferred to be in cutout shorts and tees rather than dress up, she did design her own dresses and on occasions she wore them and well this was one of them. Miho had also gotten one of her satellites to take photos of that place and knew exactly where she needed to walk into after reaching that place. After landing a little distance from the "No mans land", we left the hyper plane and set out on the Range Rover to that place. There was nothing but sand dunes in every direction as far as the eyes could see. Soon we reached the place. Miho's strategy was simple - just walk in through the main door... As she got out, she asked me and the wolf to stay in the Ranger Rover and be ready for anything. As she stepped out, immediately I could see whoever was around were being mesmerized by Miho's sight... Even the mercenaries guarding the entrance to the private section of this place were so mesmerized by her beauty that forgot to stop her and ask who she was and what business she had there. They simply let her pass them as though she owned this place. The few adventures who were there came and stood at the gate watching Miho. (They knew not to try and enter this private section. There was a unspoken rule that no harm would come to them if they stayed off the private part of that place and for their own well being they followed that unspoken rule.) Even the play mates with their expensive dresses and shoes were in awe at the sight of this tattooed young lady in the short mini dress who walked past them on her own with not a care in the world... They all did not know what to make of her... On one side she looked like a girl next door and on the other she was tattooed up... She didn't conform to any of the notions they held... The story will continue with the next render....

I just love how Miho looks in that short mini dress, with that hair, specially with this camera angle. Self assured and confident, sexy, and still a hint of naughtiness in her eyes and a look that showed she knew the effect she was having on others. In fact this scene started because I really liked how Miho looked in my last render and I wanted to do another render of hers in a similar pose. I slightly lowered the camera and changed Miho's pose a bit from the last render. Once I had got the walking pose done, I needed to put her in a new environment. So deleted the abandoned house and loaded a free prop I had recently got from Daz of a pathway. The yellow / orange color of the walls looked great. Then I changed Miho's cloths from the top and the shorts to this dress. Now this dress comes with its own texture and transparency that I did not like that much so did some pre-work in Photoshop on creating a new transparency map for the the top and skirt part and then used that in the Octane material editor to change everything to custom texture with a nice lace pattern for the top as well as the bottom edge of the skirt. Then I had to decide on the color of the dress. The white base was already looking good but I kept thinking about orange to contrast with the walls and so I changed the skirt part to orange. It looked really nice but there was a real problem. The line where the top and the skirt part met was very uneven and it looked bad around that area. I needed the top and bottom part of the dress to have a straight line. With a same color top and skirt I had not noticed it before. So I took the skirt into ZBrush and evened out that line where the top and bottom part joined. I also added a slight wind effect to the skirt in ZBrush and properly draped it around her right arm. Once that was done, Miho was looking beautiful in that dress against that backdrop with the slight gust of wind effect blowing up her skirt. Then I added flat shoes (Miho preferred flats to heels) and colored them white to color match them to the top part of the dress. I added a butterfly necklace and color matched it to the skirt part of the dress. Also added an anklet and colored the rose to the same orange color to create a nice matching theme. I also styled her hair in ZBrush a bit more and with this lighting it really looks very nice, the way it frames her face. After all that I looked at the scene and it looked a bit empty so I started to add characters and the camels to the scene and then the story started to form in my mind. After posing all the characters and the camels, I added the planter with flowers. Then I added another set to the background and angled it slightly as though where Miho was walking was an inner private area guarded by heavily armed mercenaries. Finally added the Ranger, a desert prop and date trees to cover the background that could be seen via the opening in the background set. That completed the scene. I edited the textures of the floor to add a very slight reflection to it. And enhanced the planters and flowers / leaves and the gate and the lamps a bit. The walls I left as is because they were already looking good. For the camels and other characters I used the default IRAY materials in Octane and did not do anything specific in terms of tweaking their textures other than reduce the diffuse power on their skin materials as needed. There is a slight DOF used so in any case they were not in sharp focus for me to worry too much about the materials on them. For the 2 girls seated on the bench I did some minor adjustment to their dresses in ZBrush to drape them properly as most of the dresses look odd (ballooned) when the character is seated.