Thank you so much, I ended up doing it like you said, converted to curve and extruded along it! Awesome:D

Neat trick, thanks! Motionpaths are going to help with another part of the animation! Is there a way to scale the poly plane along the motion path instead? As in, you define the motion path and then...

I'm trying to animate a polygon plane so that it follows a predetermined path, namely a spiral shape (the idea is to have two spirals to wind round eachother and create a DNA helix). The original...