Import 3D PSD to After Effects CC

Hi all!
First time poster here
So, I have a .3ds model file. I have opened this in Photoshop and saved it as a PSD. When I open the PSD, the layers are there, the textures, I can move it around 3 dimensional space - all perfect.
But when I import this into After Effects CC and choose composition - retain layer sizes, it adds in a comp, with a folder containing the single PSD. This time, when I choose the rotate tool, it is now a flat image that I am rotating. It's as if it has lost the 3D part of the image. Is this a problem in the saving of the PSD? Or perhaps the way I'm importing/viewing it in AE?
I'm running the very latest CC of both, and the .3ds file used at the start was exported via 3DS Max 2015.
Many thanks
Mark

Thanks Mylenium. I'm afraid I'm a complete beginner with Cinema 4D. I understand it can be accessed from within AE but I get a message about there being no Cinema 4D file. I see I can export from AE to a c4d file, but in my circumstances I would need to export as c4d from Photoshop instead?
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