On 9-9-2014 17:35, And wrote:
> I would like to learning the composition. Maybe what I should do is starting
> from a simple scene then adding some active characters step by step. Because I
> found that my renders only contain simple objects. That is boring.

Composition is rather essential indeed to the appeal or the rejection of 
a scene. However, simple objects are /not/ necessarily boring, I often 
think the contrary. Many images posted here reach excellence just 
because of their simplicity, something which I - personally - find 
extremely difficult to achieve!

[I am not a professional artist so my comments come from what I have 
learned over the years, from looking at and analysing very many objects 
of art, especially paintings and engravings, and things learned from 
texts, from artists, from classes.]

To help with composition, there is a nice include file by B Gimeno: 
composition_guides.inc which I recommend to use, and - after a while 
when the procedure is well-known - to break all the rules ;-) Because 
too strict rules will also lead to boring results; the trick is to 
diverge from the rules in such a fashion that some inner tension is 
built in the image.

The include can be found here:
http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/thread/%3Cweb.4f71b4c0ca16910d51f818f50@news.povray.org%3E/

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> The characters in your pictures are lifelike.

I am using Poser for the characters. To make them lifelike careful 
observation of humankind is necessary, everywhere, always, under all 
circumstances. The use of a mirror is also recommended ;-)

Thomas

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