After talking about ideas of how to improve my logo last class, I was in love with the idea of re-rendering the lightbulb logo to "screw-in" and flicker on before the rest of the short animation plays. However, I realized I lost an old flash drive where I had the project saved, and could no longer render any new frames without making it from scratch...

So, I thought I could "cheat" the system by bringing my rendered mp4 of the lightbulb into Nuke and faking the spark. It was a bit challenging creating my own alphas from little information except keying but using a defocus node helped hide the imperfections a bit.

Animated Logo Update

I also found some free sound effects of electrical humming and lightbulbs flickering on to incorporate in to the final version.