I don't know really, but I made that .gif in Maya and it was real pain, because apparently you can't turn off anti-aliasing in Maya really. I had to sort of force it to do that, and when I tried it again today Maya kept crashing haha. It also has a unfiltered texture or something like that to make it super pixely, as well…
I like it! Looks like my starter 'moss' if I'm not mistaken. I'm trying to get some plant evolution drawings from a local botanical garden, and in the meantime I agreed to do my 'evolution' game but specifically with orchids/flowers. I'll do a dry run tomorrow to see how it goes. And yeah I was trying to teach myself UV…