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Check out this link..

http://www.stephenglover.info/animate-an-extrusion-along-a-curve-in-maya/

Simplified Steps:

1. Draw curve

2. Attach shape to curve using motion path

3. extrude the shape along the curve using Surfaces > Extrude[] (found under the surfaces drop down).

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This stage comes after the initial set up stage s you should have your curves and your image planes set up.

The digital tutors video which I’m using to learn this creates 2 shelf buttons which switch between red/black set of image planes and the black/white image planes. You can also 2 small images of each for icons to make it easy to know which is which.

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