Rigging Mod

Rigging is the animation term for building a skeleton of bones and joints that deform a mesh. Every Minecraft model already has an internal rig; a rigging mod exposes that rig to you in-game so you can rotate joints, keyframe motion and pose scenes. Without one, you're stuck with the four vanilla animations Mojang ships.

Rig Mod is the flagship Fabric rigging mod for Minecraft 1.21. It gives full bone control for the player model, an in-world keyframe timeline, a camera rig for cinematic shots and a pose library for saving and re-applying poses across scenes. See the dedicated Rig Mod page for the full feature list.

Cinematics and trailers — the mod's whole reason for existing.

YouTube shorts and animated skits — expressive body language beyond vanilla.

Screenshots and Reddit posts — pose static shots dramatically.

Server intros and roleplay — custom entrance and idle animations for characters.

Resource packs can retexture and even swap models, but they can't reach into the animation system to add new keyframes. A rigging mod runs at the animation layer, which is why it can do things resource packs simply can't.

Install Fabric Loader for your Minecraft version, drop the rigging mod's .jar in .minecraft/mods, and launch the Fabric profile. Bind the rigging UI to a hotkey in Controls, hop into a world, and start posing.