Sims 4 Custom Dance Animation in Blender (Work In Progress)

So I gave up on Inverse Kinematics for now and started making a dance animation instead:

I'm not sure if I'm going to do anything with this or not because I'm feeling a bit lazy and I'm pretty sick of blender now...

Sims 4 Inverse Kinematic (IK) Rig In Blender For Easier / Faster Joint Movement - Progress?

So I've spent ages searching online hoping to find an answer to this question: Why are sims 4 models so tedious to pose compared to other models?

Maybe I'm just stupid and I'm missing something completely obvious. I'm a total noob when it comes to this animation thing afterall. But I just can't seem to find any answers...

So after watching several tutorials on rigging models on youtube, I've been playing around with the default rig from The Sims 4 Studio and I think I might have made some progress with it:

Here is a sample of default method we're familiar with:
(basically a bit of a pain in the butt)

And here is what I've managed to figure out so far:

It's still pretty horrible of course, but as I have no real idea what the heck I'm doing, I'd say it's not that bad... I'm learning things.

I've got a couple of other things I want to try, including learning how to rig an .obj model to see if I can make some progress there instead.

If anyone happens to know how to make this better, or how to properly use Inverse Kinematics on Sims 4 models, please, PLEASE do share! For the sake of all Sims 4 animatiors' sanity. ;)

When You're Trying To Film and Your Sims be Like:

 "Nope"

 You do not look impressed with my directing, Henry.
Now, play with your cannon properly...

Sims 4 Custom Animation Pack - Arch Window Animations by Linnypig

This is my first animation pack!

The pack includes 3 short animation sequences for The Sims 4

(Download Link at the bottom)

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How To Use:

- You need to make sure you have Andrew's Pose Player installed (Click here to download)

- Unzip the folder and place the .package file into:

"Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods"

 Once installed, clicking on your sim in game should bring up this menu:

Select "pose by pack" then select the animation pack as shown below:

Then select which animation within the pack you want your sim to perform:

And there you go!

(Note: I cannot solve any problems you have with installing the pose player and getting it to work because I'm clueless when it comes to mods)

P.S I'm going to upload a video of ALL THREE animations.