Awesome thread! And some very impressive and awesome renders too, I can easily see that there's still plenty of improvement to work on for me. But... this was never a competition in the first place and thus...
Alien groping
https://www.renderotica....-?artistname=zenmaster3d
Next to Daz Studio I'm also using Photoshop Elements as well as Aurora HDR (which can even be used as a plugin) and these programs can help me to fix mistakes but also to add a bit more dynamic to some of my renders. The reason why I am proud of this render is because it took me ages to set up a good HDR map I think I really nailed it with Melanie's skin color.
Defeated girl
https://www.renderotica....-?artistname=zenmaster3d
Ironically enough this render also leads up to the render I'm the least proud of because I ended up taking things a bit too far for my liking, but that's always easily said in hindsight. Having said that though I am very proud of the water effects and how they manage to stand out a bit, you can even see the contour of the shark which I think only adds to the suspense of the scene.
The dragon's gift
https://www.renderotica....p;artistname=zenmaster3d
While this render has a few problems I still think it worked out quite nicely. What I especially enjoy about it is the female figure, she's based on Genesis which was the very first generation of figures for Daz Studio and now that Genesis 8.1 is a thing some people consider Genesis kinda obsolete. I believe that renders like these clearly show that Genesis still has plenty of potential for making good renders.
Which leads me to...
Hell awaits
https://www.renderotica....p;artistname=zenmaster3d
If we're going old school then there's nothing more old school than me (well, my avatar, lol!) which is based on Genesis (see previous comment) and this render was also made using the 3Delight engine, which some people would now also consider obsolete since we have both Iray as well as Filament. Each to their own but I'm quite proud of the way my custom lighting turned out here. I'm also happy to see that there are plenty of "Renderoticans" who can appreciate non-sexual contents as well.
Now... hope you'll excuse me but I have a small alien horde to manage, courtesy of our very own DeepSpace3D ✨