Star Wars Galaxies: EP3: How It Begins

There are many different ways to describes that yellow text that begins each Star Wars movie. You can call it the scroll, the opening crawl or even the roll-up. The opening roll-up has become a personal tradition for Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll, who has done the crawls for Ep1 and 2, and now 3 on his home computer. This is a little bit from Knoll:

I type the text in Illustrator. I then get a layout approval from George [Lucas], regarding where the line breaks are -- he really cares about the typography." At this stage, the text is a rectangular block -- just flat art. Knoll then imports the Illustrator eps file into a program called form·Z, which turns it into a piece of geometry that can be used in a 3-D program.

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