Brief recap: those in the know will remember that I'm lifting the introduction of ventress from it's original point in the series and using it as a sort of cold opening before the main titles. We intercut a few times between Ventress and Dooku [and sidious] in the Ratattak [sp?] penthouse and the arena where she proves herself. the arena shots are in black and white and are meant to be flashbacks she has throughout the encounter. After Sidious reveals his intent to Dooku we have a fresh shot of Ventress going to hyperspace...

Now initially I had an opening shot pretty close to the title shot of the series but that proved pretty awkward to transition to Muunilinst - without looking rubbish. So I tried for a compromise between the overall blue look and the plain starfields of the movies. Yes the ship does zoom off into hyperspace.

Cue the main logo - none of these shots are completely final btw...

Now during the pan down I move the 'nebula' at a slightly different rate to the star field which I feel helps to 'sell' the camera move.

Which finally brings us to Muunilinst for the coming battle. I tried to be caeful here with adding extra stuff that i keep things far enough away so I wont have to add them to every space battle shot - That is why the area directly around the planet is fairly plain.