Okay, here’s a first attempt to put it all together and create some sort of workflow.

• Major elements drawn in Illustrator
• Imported to After Effects where the effects were added
• Finished composition put into Premiere where major transitions, sound effects and the extro were added
• Exported using Media Encoder

I added the lightening effects from AE’s prepackaged fx. The lightsaber effect is from a plug-in courtesy of Video Co-pilot. Sound effects are all free downloads with the majority from theforce.net. All in all, about 5 hours work, start to finish. If I was to take any care at all, I suppose I could triple that figure easily, not to mention how much time I saved by completely ignoring any smoothing of the animation; I will save that for when I have a gooder idea…