Hey GFXVoid Community, I'm currently working my semester final for my photoshop class, and I want to do an animation which I plan on making two doors open up, showing a graphically appealing somewhat banner / signature, (graphic that also contains animation itself such as lighting effects, text animation, etc..) and has a hyperlink to an e-portfolio.


Having only used Photoshop for a few years, and solely making signatures for personal enjoyment at occasional times, I don't have much experience or knowledge in animation making. I have some knowledge of using the timeline feature of the animation window, but not the other format that allows one to deal with layers, etc..



I need advice and help in making the Animation, with the main idea of the animation stated above. This is my current progress so far, which took me several hours to do ,and have over 50 layers in animation (which I'm sure there's a shortcut for), and still not 1/4 of the way completed.



Progress:

http://flickcabin.com/public/view/full/102495



Help? pl0x? (If anyone needs PSD to check , feel free to ask)