Help with major work animation

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hey, i really need help with an animation i'm working on. I don't know if this is the best place to post this, but i'l do it anyway.

Basically, i need to animate a strand of hair calmly blowing in the wind. So far, the best way to approach it is to create the strand in Photoshop (i want it to be reasonably realistic), and then creating a scaffold of the animation in animate CC. Then, il import this animation into photoshop. I then create loads and loads of layers copies of the strand of hair, and space them out in the timeline so they correspond with 1 frame from the scaffold animation. I then transform each layer so that the strand matches up with the lines in the scaffold.

This is obviously very time consuming as i need hundreds of frames. originally i was thinking of using a video animation format in Photoshop instead of frame animation, however transforming a frame in that alters every single other one also.

Is there any other way to do this? Or will i have to create hundreds of layers and just grind it out and hope for a decent final work?