[John Cuevas]

I’m not sure this will be of benefit to you(some of the other suggestions may work better for this situation) but there is a “name-your-price” script at AEScripts that will reposition the anchor point of layers.

RepositionAnchorPoint Compatibility After Effects

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

If you have trapcode Particular you could create put your photos in a precomp, use them as a custom sprite and set up a grid emitter.

If not you could set up an expression to space your layers. I would make all layers the same size to start, then you could apply an expression like this the position of the layers. It will automatically space each layer an equal distance from the next layer.(Compliments of Marcus Geduld):

var columns = 10;
var spaceBetweenLayers = thisLayer.width + 10;
var x = ((index-1) % columns) * spaceBetweenLayers;
var y = Math.floor((index-1) / columns) * spaceBetweenLayers;
var origin = [40,50];
origin + [x,y]

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Are you using the Numbers effect? If so go into the options and right justify the text.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

turn off the effects and try to render. If it still fails, you may be looking at a corruption in one of your layers.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I’ll skip trying to figuring out the “why”(let smarter people do that) it’s happening and move to a solution you could try.

Create a folder, and render the project to a TIF sequence. If it fails at a certain point, you will have a working animation to that point and all you will have to do is change your render area to where it failed and start from there.

Once you have all the frames rendered you can bring import them as a sequence and render to the codec/file(with audio) that is your deliverable.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Pretty cool Tom…just wondering did you also create the virtual set?

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Are there any 2d layers between your .psd and the ‘plinth’ in the layer stack(like and adjustment layer). That will mess up AE’s render order and will cancel out your reflection.

The positions of certain kinds of layers in the layer stacking order in the Timeline panel prevent groups of 3D layers from being processed together to determine intersections and shadows.

A shadow cast by a 3D layer does not affect a 2D layer or any layer that is on the other side of the 2D layer in the layer stacking order. Similarly, a 3D layer does not intersect with a 2D layer or any layer that is on the other side of the 2D layer in the layer stacking order. No such restriction exists for lights.

3D layer interactions, render order, and collapsed transformations

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Import the sequence and check the “Force Alphabetical Order” box.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

As Walter has pointed out, it is pretty much what you want.

It slipped my mind as I haven’t had a reason to buy it…yet. I’ve watched a few of Andrew’s tutorial’s and it looks like and incredible plugin for AE and 3d intergration.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

This guy made it work at around 1:09, you might want to see how that director did it… not sure what he did after this though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR1-UFrcZ0k&feature=related

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

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