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

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You can use the "g" (grab) key to move any of the facial rigs. Also I found out using "rr" on the eyelids and eyes helps out alot with getting it to the perfect spot.
If you need any more help on this matter let me know.

This may sound really dumb :/ but I honestly cannot seem to find the create animation part. I'm using the Sims 4 harmony update and have seen that you may need to download the vogue version? I found a link but it says I'm not allowed to access the content, does anybody know what I can do as I cannot even get past the first step. Thanks in advance! Don't worry, I figured it out!

EDIT/UPDATE
Although I fixed it, I'm not quite sure what did the trick. One tip somewere here on the site there was a tutorial on how you could copy/paste in same Blender session. So glad that this worked for the second problem I encountered. After that I checked all poses. Looked good in Blender and tried them. They worked fine (you beat me if I know why but oké) One conclusion: it's a lot trial and error here. 


I'm getting really frustrated. My poses (series Happy Birthday which I made for Sims 3 some years ago) were coming along great. Tested, took screenshots etc. 
So it worked first.

The difficulty is that this serie of poses are not situated on the same spot: first the mum and the toddler are in front of the couch before a coffee table on which is a birthday cake.
Second pose is mum on the couch and toddler gets a sip. So on the couch. In Blender I imported a couch for positioning.
Then standing (walking) with toddler on hip
Poses 4 and 5 are on the bed. Totally different location. No problem here. Method I used was open blank pose, append the toddler rig. Make the pose. Save together on a different name. Opening this again and deleting first the mum, save the toddler pose. Opening once again and do the same, deleting the toddler etc. 
Poses worked (tested them) but yeah mum was standing in the couch. I knew that, but at first I wanted the pose right, then next the position. So I moved the mother and toddler rig with the root_bind. And now they are in game way apart from each other.

I did something wrong, but don't know what. Somebody can tell me that?
Because the bed scene I did the same way, but they work alright.

Second problem is that I suddenly cannot move the rig of the mum anymore in Blender. I'm using the rig of KIJIKO. The control_rig works, the normal rig doesn't. Did something wrong here, but the question is what and how to fix it.
Please help.

sweetsorrowsims : Thanks, that is very kind of you. But I kind of succeeded to fix it (although I'm not sure how I did it). I finished the pose series and will upload them at MTS (perhaps if there are willing to have it) and on my Tumblr. (Or maybe here?)

But I have another question. F.i. I when I use a already made pose as a starting point, saving it as it should I get a idle pose testing in game. So I use the workaround: opening the pose in Blender, copy the joints and in same Blender session open a blank pose and paste the former pose. When I save this next, it works all right testing in game. I don't get why, but my work around works and that's what counts.

Anyway I don't have the faulty package anymore.

I forgot to mention that it takes me several Blender sessions to get a couple pose right. And first it worked but after doing some more work  this is what happened out of the blue ...


 and after I did something I don't know exactly it came out great.



But I'm glad there are people willing to help one out. 

Does anyone have a problem with Blender 2.70 crashing? I tend to multitask or leave the program running for a while. Sometimes, when I minimize the program or switch over to my browser, the Blender screen with everything on it becomes really small and is pushed to the top left corner. The program is unresponsive.

I'm tired of this happening. Is there a setting I can change that will allow Blender to run in the background or something? I do save it when I go to multitask, but sometimes I forget to, so I lose my progress.

I have plenty of ram on my computer, so... I don't know. Thanks for your response. Perhaps they know.