Still on the same topic...
(Doing this animation also in the process of learning and wrap my head around GSAP timelines...)
From the suggestions made in the thread and @mikel's demo:
I got something going myself with the initial pen I posted:
I have a feeling the approach I took, applying this effect to multiple items 'tulips' is not the best one. It would be good to know of a good approach, also for me moving forward using GSAP (the correct way).
In this example, the flower head and leaves use the same animations, which I've added to one timeline and therefore just want to re-use that for all the flowers.
The stems however, use a different timeline for each, because the end path of the morphing is in a different place on the SVG viewport (or that is how I see it, but please advise otherwise).
For each flower I've made its own timeline for the morphing stem and then nesting the flower timeline within.
I am wondering if this is the right approach. I am also struggling with the timings.
I would like each flower's animation (as a whole) to start very slightly after each other. I have searched online, but can not seem to find anything... almost like the timelines of each flower need to 'stagger' after each other.
At the moment all the bits seem out of sync...
I don't understand the '0' at the end of the Morphing of the tween. If I remove it, the morph does not work. Is that an absolute time? In the syntax and code examples it is not necessarily there.
Any thoughts / advice would be much appreciated.