What is an easy way to bring forward layayers of a character

[KoopDaKilla]

I was wondering how to bring forward layers of a character. For example: I am trying to figure out how anime my character to open a fridge. I started out having my character layer above the fridge layer (side view) and opening the fridge. But then I also wanted my character to go behind the fridge door and grab some food. The problem accurs when his body is I front of the door.

I also have been working on making a head turn using smart bones. But as I go to the side view (wanting only one eye to be shone) I don't know how to make the unwanted eyeball transition behind the face as a smooth rotation.

Please help me out, thanks

[slowtiger]

Anything which is inside another layer (bone, group) can change its position in the layer stack. Check "animate layer order" under tab "depth sort" in the top layer.

[KoopDaKilla]

Thankyou! The only thing i still need help on is a head turn using smart bones.

[Maxwell]

Thankyou! The only thing i still need help on is a head turn using smart bones.

that requires a lot of work... well depending on how complicated your head is, you basically need to animate frame by frame
here is something i created for a test, but i realized it's easier to just use switch layers. but with some masking and frame by frame animation with the help of onionskin you can manage anything, first i suggest you draw out all the face positions, front, 3,4 , side, 3,4 back, and back and then just import them as tracing images one at a time
here is a link you can download my file
http://www.sendspace.com/file/aw00gk hope this helps it was my first head rotation and it's not completed or good... but it's something

[KoopDaKilla]

Thankyou allot! nice job with that character! How did you get the glasses and headphones out of view when the hcracters head turns? i need to do the same thing with my character ti make the eyes turn with the headallong with his mouth only becoming half visisble. Did you use masking? i m not very familiar with masking. thanks again

[KoopDaKilla]

If I uploaded i face file could you help me with setting up the masking for rotation of the head?

[Maxwell]

send me a link to the file