Specific bones are not rotating

Support Animation and Rigging
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At first, so as to build my armature, I had a single bone.

All other bones stem from exclusions from this bone, or from exclusions of exclusions of this bone (etc).

All bones rotate correctly apart from 2 bones that have been directly excluded from the initial bone.

Pictures:
Bone that rotates correctly:


Initial state of a bone that misbehaves:


Trying to rotate that bone:

Please note that more bones are being excluded from the problematic ones, that rotate just fine!

Thanks in advance for any replies!

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it sounds like you haven’t set up an IK chain yet but without looking at the .blend, I can’t be sure. In hopes of helping I will post two links to rigging tutorials that are extremely helpful to me, good luck!

http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/introduction-to-rigging/

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Thanks a lot, Exanimis!

I will take a close look to your tutorials (I learned how to set up an armature through a youtube video, myself) and I will let you know about how it went!