Originally posted by Axel Maybe I didn't make myself clear - I ment creating a 3D- out of the attached 2D-object and animating it... which seems to be a bit more complex as you can read in the previously posted link (Animating Impossible Objects). Nevertheless, thank you for reviewing the basics oh my bad. I did not think you where refering to 2D. However, I am still kind of lost. Why would you want to have a 2D object as a final object in a 3d application? Are you refering to doing this in Maya at all? If you are, there many different things you can do with a 2D object in Maya. If your object is a vector you can convert it to 3D. You can do really cool things in Maya with an Adobe Illustrator file, especially if you have Maya 6.5 or above which makes importing a hell a lot easier. Have a look at this video... creating an ice cream cone which by the way I wish simply maya would do some more freebie bells and wistles like this one. Also another cool trick is if you still want this object of yours to be 2d, you can create an alpha channel which will allow you to control what is transparent and what is visible. Then map the image onto a polygonal plane, and then it should be easier for you to rotate it in Maya. If you are not sure how to create an alpha channel, then here a couple of tricks. An alpha channel is created by meaning any area of the image that is black will be transparent, any area of the image that is white will be visible, and any area of the image that is inbetween will be the percentage amount of transparency. So that means in Photoshop, you would want to select the area of your image that you want visable, and then fill that part as white in an alpha channel. Then you can save the image as a targa file and make sure you save it as a 32 bit image file. Then again, if this not for maya you could do what the link you gave above explains, or I think flash has special effects for that kind of thing which makes it easier to do.