This is a Plymouth theme created for Linux Mint. I take no credit for the coding, that goes to Erik Johnson's Seven Plymouth Theme 0.1. on KDE-Look.org.
A dot grows into the mint leaf and the LM is traced on top, then lens flare traces the LM till GDM2 starts.
Hope you enjoy the theme. This is my first posting so feed back is appreciated. Thanks!

If anyone is having trouble with ugly Plymouth, check out this link it worked for me: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml

To install: Download the tar.gz. Extract the folder Lmint. cd to the folder you extracted the Lmint folder into.
TYPE IN TERMINAL:

sudo cp -R Lmint/ /lib/plymouth/themes/
sudo update-alternatives --install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/Lmint/Lmint.plymouth 100
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth #here, choose the number of the theme you want to use then hit enter
sudo update-initramfs -u

#thats it! These instructions are for Debian based distros.
Enjoy!

***PLEASE post feedback! Thanks!
The first screenshot shows a sample of the animation :-)