3D effect with new UI system

Hi everyone, do someone know how to get a simple 3D effect with the new UI? I alredy try to rotate the buttons towards the screen, but it kinda get smaller. I mean a rlly simple 3d effect like these.
Before I used to make these using cubes, and add texture to the cube with text, then I rotate the cubes towards the screen, and done, easy 3D effect. But now I want to start using the new system, but it seem useless in many cases… :c

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Make a new Empty game object

add a UI image or text or what ever to the scene

Notice how there is a canvas game object that was also created

On the canvas Component click the drop down box and select World space

make the scale of the image AND canvas to what every you like(it starts of really big)

make the Canvas object a child of the empty game object

copy and paste the canvas Game Object to make more faces for a cube

then you could rotate the empty game(although not empty anymore) and it should do what you want. or what i think you want it to do.

Hope this helped
~Scott