fxguide has an article with Blur studio about their creation of the main titles and with Method Studios and Digital Domain about their composites for director David Fincher's latest film "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
“From a story perspective the goal was to illuminate the key moments of all three books as well as the most relevant personality traits of the two main characters,” explains Blur creative director Tim Miller. “But to do it so abstractly that it would take several viewings to really understand the visual metaphors. Conceptually it was supposed to feel like a dreamscape, a nightmare of Lisbeth’s (Rooney Mara), dark horrific, beautiful and covered in what David called ‘dream ooze’.”