Armature Help

I created an armature for some hands I made in Blender. The mesh moves properly with the armature, but I have some concerns before I move on to animation:

1.The armature does not move when I move the mesh in Object Mode. I don’t know if this is an issue, but I want to be sure.

  1. When I apply the armature modifier, it no longer moves the mesh in pose mode.

The Dropbox file is below. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Start at the beginning, go and watch some tutorial. Youtube is your friend.

  1. In Blender it called parent child relationship, you just parented it, that why the child (mesh ) cannot move the parent (armature).
  2. This is Blender structure, the armature modifier is in the modifier stack because of the modifier’s non-destruction workflow, you leave modifier there, in peace, and the modifier let you work in peace.

So you are fine :slight_smile:
Ps. I didn’t open the .blend