on 2006 i made this video ... i used a fake-3d distortion of flat plane (image or title), using 3 different titles i can make a spinning (fake) 3d effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGy8VNljUo

the effect is doing something like that to an image:



not a real 3D distorion, but a GEOMETRY DISTORTION (it looks very similar)

and i think that the only geometry distortions we have is the ROTATE and SHEAR / TRANSFORM , i'm right?

the TRANSFORM tool can do a lot of the job .. but maybe can be fine to apply a EXTRA DISTORTION to simulate 3D... (feature request?)