I’m trying to bloom this stem: A stem is basically an elongated rectangle.
Into this leaf:
I’m trying to animate the blooming of this stem into this leaf. However, I struggle to make it look organic. How can I achieve this animation and make it look like an organic leaf blooming.
One thing is about organic shapes in general is that they are almost never elongated rectangles. Instead, the are often an iteration of many similar shapes, changing slightly in distance, angle, and/or size each time.
Here are a couple crude examples in Processing(Java).