Best way to set up a 3D space?

[slowtiger]

(AS 6.2 here.)
I wonder which way is the best to do the following:

Imagine a stack of some 8 or 10 "disks" with equal space between them so they form a cylinder. Each "disk" consists of lots of images, like cards splattered on a glass table.

Now I want to turn that cylinder in space so once you'll see all disks from the top, then you'll see the cylinder from the side, zoom in to some item, and back again etc. All this happens over a background which is immune to camera movement.

One way would be to build all this like that:

- cylinder group folder
- - disk 8, Z=8
- - disk 7, Z=7
- - disk 6, Z=6
- - disk 5, Z=5
- - disk 4, Z=4
- - disk 3, Z=3
- - disk 2, Z=2
- - disk 1, Z=1
- background layer

and just move the camera around all this.

However, the other way wouldn't move the camera at all. Instead I'd grab that cylinder layer (and everything inside it) and turn it around as I like.

Theoretically I should get the same result in both ways. Am I right? And which way do you prefer in terms of easier workflow?

[Víctor Paredes]

Move a layer is much easier than moving the camera on AS, so I recommend you to do that way.
Other thing I can see is that maybe will be better to create a group for each disk and put the content inside those groups. This way, if you need to change or add content to some disk, you just add your layers inside the group and don't need re-ordering anything on X,Y,Z rotation and position, because is the group that has the coordinates.

[slowtiger]

better to create a group for each disk

That's what I do anyway, because I need masks and stuff, but I left that out of the setup description. Thx for your input!

The result will be available in January.

[Víctor Paredes]

better to create a group for each disk

That's what I do anyway, because I need masks and stuff, but I left that out of the setup description. Thx for your input!

The result will be available in January.

I'll be waiting then