Trying to build an animated swiss cheese infographic

[brandonh55047993]

I'm trying to build an animated infographic that has a line pass through some swiss cheese blocks. I got the shapes designed but I cant figure out how to path the line through the circles. See the image below.

[Rick Gerard]

Masking is the first screenshot, and 3D layers have been used in the second. You will have to make the layers 3D or add masks or a track matte to the horizontal line. Here are a couple of simple examples.

[Mylenium]

That graphic would probably be simple to do in a 3D program, but as Rick already explained in AE you have to do quite a bit of extra masking to create the illusion.

Mylenium