Originally I had the layers individually scaling down starting from out of frame, and then I would lower the opacity of the layers furthest away. I repeated this process with duplicate layers but found it too tedious and wanted to find a way a another method using some type of looping mechanism.
It definitely does not need to look photorealistic and could be stylized. I’m doing it for an animation.
I don’t actually have illustrator but would not be advserse to scrapping the background if necessary for a different process to work.
Thanks