New Top 10 Design - Tri Wheel thingy

I started this project about 2 weeks ago and it was slowly turning into a piece of garbage that nowhere near represented what it turned into today.  At it's low point I was incredibly frustrated with not being able to get fast renders with the types of effects that I wanted.  My Global Illumination simulation (the Christmas Marble Madness) has been rendering since Monday on my main computer and it's about 75% done right now.  And in turning off Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion, things looked really bad.  So I reset the design and eventually came up with this.

For the intro, I started out with the camera inside my 3-wheel rotating numbers thingy (that's the official name, lol) and turned on the lights one by one to reveal the Fusion logo and the wheel.  Then the camera moves back and the wheel comes down into place and starts turning.  Eventually all three wheels stop in the same spot and come together with violent sparks.  This indicates the number in which we are at during the countdown.  The name of the song/artist/studio appear to the left of the numbers and then we go to a standard flare-out to begin the music video.

It looks pretty good, the colors can be easily changed and it renders pretty fast on the laptop (about 30 minutes for each number transition, about an hour for the intro).  Once the GI simulation is finally done I can move this project to my main computer and make changes at will with fast turnaround time.