Let me attempt to reword that a lot better.
The best looking and most notable thing in your render alt to be the ballerina.
So if you make the floor shiny the ballerina alt to out shin the floor ,metaphorically speaking.
Don't literarily mean to make the ballerina shinny.

Ya can learn from other app tutorial.
I learned to model character with max ,lightwave tutorials when I started with truespace.
I like these tutorials ,ya can apply them to any app.
Think I've seen the 3 point lights in all the app's.

http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/mastering-lighting/

http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/understanding-colors/

http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/the-secrets-of-realistic-texturing/

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