I am using a script to animate the sprite using sprite renderer on the empty game object but the sprite is rendering behind every panel. I found a solution to adjust the layer by names and that seems to be a lot of backtracking and giving every panel a layer will take a lot of time, if there is a shorter route for solving this problem
When having the empty object inside your canvas, move it as much down as you can. Than that object will be on Top off all other objects.