Use Blender to Create a Sims 4 Pose - For Absolute Beginners

Hi acousticwaffle , (love that name by the way)
Your laptop should have a function key that turns part of rhe main keyboard into a number pad. 


Or if yours doesn't have one you might be able to use a usb numeric keypad (or even a full external keyboard)

It appears that Blender also can use the top tow number keys:
www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2335

Hi littlemisssimlish ,
When youre on the frame you want to use as a keyframe, click the key symbol icon as seen in this screenshot. 


Whatever bones you have selected will be part of the key frame for that particular frame in the sequence, e.g. if you are on frame 14 and you push the key icon, it will be set as a keyframe at that number 14 frame.

Hi acousticwaffle , if you are trying to rotate your view of the rig/model you can do that with your mouse and I believe it's with control or shift keys to determine what kind of rotation it makes. I'm not at my computer right now to check in more detail.

Thanks!. I've added the keyframe and gone from there.

Hi misssims17,
As a starting point, please see my post here: sims4studio.com/post/36226/thread for links to posts that I found helpful.

Hi xXPastelGothicXx ,
Welcome to the Sims 4 Studio community!
Try changing the mode (using the dropdown in the toolbar at the bottom of the viewport) from Object Mode to Pose Mode.

If you have any other questions about posing, animation etc., please post again.

Note: I edited your post and updated your links to open the pictures.
The links you had were trying to open the pages containing the pictures.
Specifically, in case you aren't familiar with it, here's how to get a link to the picture itself:
In Photobucket (similarly in Imgur), while viewing the page with the picture on it, click the box on the right for "direct". That will copy the link to the picture itself to your clipboard so you can paste it into posts here.