The wolf was with us this time. Miho had updated the tech and we were scanning underneath the earth again. This time the tech Miho had created was a bit mind boggling. The scan gave a actual colored picture of what was underneath the ground as though the ground was liquid and you could move anywhere in it and record 360 degree of it. It was beyond my understanding as to how she had done it but the result I was seeing was amazing and countless possible uses of this tech came to my mind.... While Miho was busy with the laptop monitoring the results and making tweaks to the program as needs, I was tending to the drones flying about doing the mapping.... It was another hot hot day... The wolf choose to take a nap right by Miho's legs under the hot sun even though Miho told him to go sleep under the tree shade. There was an unshakable bond between the two of them... Miho as usual had gotten out of her cloths and was soaking up the sun which always energized her.... and well I was admiring how beautiful she looked laying there on the rug engrossed with her work.... She looked at me looking at her and smiled....

When I started on the render the main aim I had was to make Miho the front and center of the viewer's focus and also make this one more realistic compared to the original one. In the original render, the ground hardly had details and the rug was completely flat which was unnatural for the environment. So in this render I wanted the rug to look like a rug which was laid over uneven ground. To do that I had to do a lot of back and forth between Daz Studio and ZBrush. Also I want to make sure that the rug did not cut through Miho's and the wolf's body in an unnatural way so in ZBrush I pushed down all around the edges where the Miho's and the wolf's body and the rug intersected to give the correct impression of the body pressing down on the rug. Similarly I wanted to make sure the tea cup and the laptop appeared put on top of the rug and not cutting through it. Then there were poke throughs of the ground though the rug I had to take care of. I changed Miho's pose a bit from the original render and then thought about where to add the wolf and what it would be doing. The thought of showing the wolf as sleeping by Miho's side came to mind and I posed the wolf accordingly. Stuck its tongue out to indicate the hot weather. I then changed Miho's left leg to lightly rest on top of the wolf's body. I also changed the position of the Ranger and changed it materials including adding a bit of dirt to its tires (though I think I can improve on it but need to wait for a feature that is being added to the Octane plugin in the next release). The sideways view and the textures make the Ranger look pretty real. I changed the ground material to a more realistic displacement based ground texture.I also created creases and bumps on the rug to give impression that there were stones / uneven ground underneath. I even created and added a bump map to the lemon and also created a transparency map for the rug by manipulating the saturation / gamma / contrast of the original texture using a color correction node in Octane. I also used a bit of spherical distortion to bring focus on Miho . Finally I didn't really use DOF as I wanted to show the vastness of the barren environment around the place where Miho was.... I had made the landscape using 2 different landscape props.... I really like how this render looks.

As mentioned before I have removed the older original render. I am trying to redo all the renders to bring consistency to my gallery with the current and final version of Miho