From the course: Creating a Finished Character Animation in Blender 2.9

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How to animate in Blender

How to animate in Blender - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Creating a Finished Character Animation in Blender 2.9

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How to animate in Blender

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- [Instructor] Now that our scene is ready. Let's take a look on how to move Arthur around and position him in a key pose. The first thing I want to do is Click on object and go to pose mode. Now that we're in pose mode, you'll see all of our armature layers come up. We don't need a mess of this right now. So go ahead and hit N and that will hide that menu. Now we can orbit around by left Clicking and dragging this gizmo or holding down the middle mouse button. And while we're at it, you can hold down Shift middle mouse or Control middle mouse to move around a little bit better. And what I want to do is actually zoom out and Left Click and select this big master control. I want to rotate it, and I could just use this tool right here and rotate Arthur all the way around, or I can hit R for rotate Z for the Z access and type in 180, and Arthur will rotate 180 degrees on the Z access. Now I can hit Enter, and…

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