From the course: Blender 2.83 Essential Training
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Pose mode - Blender Tutorial
From the course: Blender 2.83 Essential Training
Pose mode
- [Instructor] Pose mode is Blender's special mode for animation, bringing with it a whole new suite of tools for you to use, but it's not readily available when you click up here. So, let's enable it by adding an Armature. Hit Shift + A, go to Armature, and click on Single Bone. Now initially, that armature disappears, because it's hidden beneath the cube, so come to this little running man, click on Viewport Display, scroll down, and click on In Front. There we go. Now zoom in a little bit, and let's select our cube, then Shift + Select the armature, that way it's the active object, and then hit Control + P. Now, when Control + P comes up, you'll see a typical list of options, like Set Parent To Object. This allows you to parent, say, objects to other objects, or empties, or whatever. But when you have an armature as the last thing you have selected, that is, actively selected, you have a new Armature Deform menu come…
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