I really love the style used in the raining / lightning scene.
Great work man as I think you pulled off most of this stuff in a week's time (if I got that correctly from your animation)

Glad you're back! And I like your preloader (however I would add some text or something saying Loading..., maybe flashing) because the bar was a bit too dark if you ask me (although the face made it more clear that it was preloading)