Check out some of these student animations of Summer Live!

This work comes from HGD 174: 2-D Animation with Photoshop and After-Effects (Level 1)  Course description:

Used in producing animated gifs for the web and movies, Adobe Photoshop  is the software used by industry to create two-dimensional animations and set up files to be animated in After Effects. Students will learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for the first few days and then transition to After-Effects. Students will produce their own animations, text animations, and several other projects that may be viewed on any computer and used for portfolio submissions.