This is the second piece of Star Wars fan art that I completed, and can also be seen under the Fan Art section of JediKnightII.net

I started off with an old scanned sketch which I transformed into Darth Maul within Paintshop Pro. Then I added a background layer, and rendered a simple desert scene in Bryce, on which I used a motion blur filter to get the speeding terrain effect.

The lightsaber glow was a cop-out, I'm afraid, because I used a plugin. I have since stopped using most plugins, and concentrated on painting as much as possible freehand. All of the lighting effects in the scene were added in a separate layer.

This scene depicts Maul after his battle with Qui-Gon Jinn as they leave Tatooine. In the picture, Maul has jumped onto the boarding ramp after Qui-Gon - something I felt should have been in the movie, The Phantom Menace.

Rob