Bending or Warping a plane?

[Steve Barrett]

I am making a video screen with a "mask" in front to hide certain portions of the screen from view. I created the tiles of the screen and then duplcate arrayed them into a curve - so far, so good. I would like to take the "mask" and form it to the front of the video screen which is curved. How do I take a pre-existing 2D shape and from the top view bend or warp it to match the curve I need?

[grant_PD]

sounds like you need to make a nurbs surface out of your 2d object. Once you've done that you can warp the surface by adjusting the weight along the U, V axes. Look to the section on nurbs in the help files for more info.