the fizziest of bizzez

First, I made a CD in Photoshop. It's important that the hole be completely centered, or the asymmetry will be very noticeable. (But hey, nothing worth loving isn't askew, anyhow.) Here it is:

The layers are split between the base, and the reflections over it.

Then I get a photo of the CD and transform it until it fits into the CD I made. The photo goes above the base, and under the reflections, then on top of the reflections again (also with some different layer modes and varying opacity. Just try shit. Trial and error.). Now I have the png:

Now I take it into 3dgifmaker and put these settings:

Then download, and now I have this:

Next, I take it into Ezgif and click "crop". Instead of cropping, I just extended the canvas twice (I think? maybe thrice) to make room for the album cover. I also made sure the album cover image had the same height as the initial CD. Then I take that to the add overlay section and put the cover halfway over the CD gif. Lastly, I took it back to the crop section and clicked "trim transparent pixels around the image". Then it's done! Little convoluted? Yeah... but hey, I figured it out, right? A win is a win.