Further to my post on 'How to use Xubuntu's XSplash animation in Ubuntu' one enterprising reader, going by the moniker of  pezmanlou, turned the cool blue hues of the Xubuntu animation into an ace Ubuntu coloured variant! Excellent work!

You can grab it @ http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=114875

Whilst we're talking XSplash, if you swapped your animation out yesterday and have since updated you'll have to change it again as today a XSplash update was released that replaced both the wallpaper and the animation.