Mesh deformer seems promising + ill dive into the other elements just to make sure and for future knowledge, thank you so much for your quick advanced insight also, really helps having this forum and people like yourself helping out, i thank you!.
My other option if everything fails or takes too long, is to render out the icon as a object buffer and then 3d fold it in after effects. its quite a quick animation so that may work also. seeing as there is 11 icons to animate. options options!
Cheers,
Cameodeft