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Unfurling Flower Pod
sop Unfurling Flower Pod

Building up from the unfurling stem example, this snippet assembles the stems into a flower pod. The animation includes a rig attribute wrangle as the main control, and a kinefx secondary motion for extra livity.

Nov 08, 2025 · 20.5.584 · animation · by snay
kinefx plant organic unfurling secondary motion kkfrag
Simple Petal
sop Simple Petal

A few nodes to create a basic petal shape, with common masks, deformation, and UVs. This should provide a good base layer of detail to feed into a vellum simulation.

Nov 05, 2025 · 20.5.584 · geometry · by snay
flower kkfrag plant nature organic
Unfurling Stem
sop Unfurling Stem

Create a plant like unfurling animation by converting a line to a KineFX rig and applying a compounding rotation.

Nov 05, 2025 · 20.5.584 · animation · by snay
nature organic plants kinefx rig stem kkfrag
Geometry Parent
sop Geometry Parent

Parent one object motion to another in SOPs. Useful for attaching things to animated geometry that comes from Alembic cache.

Nov 04, 2025 · 20.5.584 · animation · by kif
sop animation parent constrain alembic attach kkfrag