Ryan Constantine wrote:
> 
> i'm also wondering about the renderman books since one of our
> povers has added its shading language to his own compile of pov.  
I'd recommend ARM (Advanced RenderMan) by Gritz and Apodaca. It contains
quite a lot of information and examples about shaders. Additionally it
contains some recommendations from CGI industry people about staging and
lighting as well.

> there
> are also books out there about lighting and staging (staging being the
> placement of camera and objects in a scene).  
I have Jeremy Birn's "[digital]lighting and rendering". It contains
basic stuff about scene, lighting and composition setup. For medium or
advanced users there is nothing new, but for such beginner in this area
like me, it contains some of good tips and tricks.

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Yes, seems, like this server is more devoted to technical discussion
instead of artistical (although binaries.images contains some artistical
advices). Perhaps this is due to the fact, that when one is using pure
POV-Ray, then technical part will consume such amount of effort, that
there will be no more resources (devotion, will, wish, ideas etc.) for
composition. And most of users are amateurs in this area, without any
art education.
Perhaps there should be separate group for composition etc.? Although
I'm not sure how this will work. Current approach (one posts picture to
p.b.i and others recommend and advice) seems to be best so far.

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