Re: **My 3D layer keeps popping in front of the one on top!**

It's a wacky "gotcha" in After Effects, but not a big deal to fix... when you create several 3d layers, they all originate from the same Z position, meaning they are exactly the same distance away from the camera. For some reason, when you start animating them, AE has a hard time knowing which one should be in front, because technically they are on the same plane. All you need to do is move layer 2 a little closer to the camera by adjusting it's Z position property. Even just a couple pixels should do the trick.

Also, there are a million ways to do anything in AE, and different setups work for different projects. But I'd like to know if you expressly didn't want to animate the camera, or if you were going for a certain something by animating the stills? The reason I ask is because it is alot easier to animate one object (the camera) than 2. The beauty of the camera is that you can set up your stills however you want them and then animate the camera to fly past them.


Let me know if I've helped or just confused you :)

Oh and by the way, almost nothing is impossible in After Effects :)