# Product Turntable

**Track:** 3D — beginner → intermediate — Generative AI 3D — proposed
**Framework / surface:** ij8 Studio (viewer + rotation-APNG)
**Level:** Beginner
**Prerequisites:** From Flat Art to 3D

**In one line:** Present an object as an orbiting turntable; export a rotation.

## Theory, aesthetics & inspiration

Rotation is how a flat screen confesses that an object is three-dimensional: as the form turns, motion parallax and the traveling specular highlight disclose depth, contour, and surface that no still can. The orbiting turntable is an old presentational grammar — the rotating museum plinth, the jeweller's display, the product-photography lazy Susan — and it became a fixed ritual in animation and VFX studios, where every model is reviewed on a slow 360-degree "turntable" before approval. A steady axis and even ambient light keep attention on the object, not the staging. Exported as a looping rotation, the result reads as evidence: this is a thing, seen from all sides.