Gotta admit that the Future Mrs. Mara Jade Skywalker is really something else,no wonder Luke fell for her?

Thank you all for the kind comments. And yes, I know the saber looks incredible. I found this awesome lightsaber tutorial over at youtube and became so obsessed with it that for two weeks straight I was doing nothing but jedi and sith renders.

The most important thing I've learned is that the simpler an image is the more well recieved it is, at least images by me. For instance, this pic took very little time to set up and render, like less than 4 hours, and everyone seems to love it. On the other hand, I spent days tweaking and modifying and obsessing over my World's Finest image, and it didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. So what did I learn? Keep it simple until I'm more comfortable with complexity and it will turn out ten times better.

Agreed, she's really well done, and the saber is dead freakin' on... GREAT WORK!

I like Mara Jade in the Star Wars books that I have and this is a great looking render of her. Thank you for this.

the light saber looks fantastic. really good all around job.