creating an animated video by rotating a surface plot

I'm struggling to get a consistent animation that has fixed axis when rotating my surface plot. Two of the problems i have faced are:

1) the data size of my surfplot changes as the rotation angle changes. 2) the color of the surface plot is not retained when i store the data in a structure. 3) So far I have compiled this:

number_of_frames = 360;
n=1;
for i = 1:10:number_of_frames

    hSurface = surf(velocityimg);

    grid off
    rotate(hSurface,[0 0 1],i);

    newdata(n).x = hSurface.XData;
    newdata(n).y = hSurface.YData;
    newdata(n).z = hSurface.ZData;

   surf(newdata(n).x,newdata(n).y,newdata(n).z);

   grid off
   hAxes = gca;
   hAxes.XRuler.Axle.LineStyle = 'none';  
   axis off
   axis vis3d
   colormap(jet)
   g(n) = getframe(gcf);
   g(n) = frame2im(g(n));
   n=n+1;
end 
%%make video
v = VideoWriter('rotating.avi');
v.FrameRate = 10;
v.Quality = 65;
open(v);
for i =1:length(g)
    frame = g(i).cdata; 
    writeVideo(v,frame);
end 
close(v);
winopen('rotating.avi');

[Sky Nelson-Isaacs]

I have the same issue. How do I keep the axes consistent as I rotate the frame and take snapshots?