Hi there

Thanks for all your replies - Adding some more divisions seemed to do the trick in allowing me to bend my rectangle using the lattice tool so I'm almost there! (thankyou for your help) - but I couldn't manage to get Maya to animate the change from the original shape (which i tried to put as keyframe 1) to the bent shape which I tried to put as keyframe 2) - The image doesn't animate at all it just stays as the bent shape. Is it possible for maya to create the information for the transformation from what is just essentially a before and after shot so that i can record the animation or is it not possible with the method i'm using?
Apologies if i'm being dumb about this!!!!

P.s i tried to use the bend deformer as well but I can't figure out how to make the rectangle just bend in the middle so I may not be able to use that method as it may be too complicated for me

Mark