Copy/Paste Pose

Mode

Pose Mode

Menu

Pose ‣ Copy Pose, Pose ‣ Paste Pose, Pose ‣ Paste Pose Flipped

Hotkey

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Shift-Ctrl-V

Blender allows you to copy and paste a pose, either through the Pose menu, or by using hotkeys.

Copy Pose

Copy the current pose of selected bones into the pose buffer.

Paste the buffered pose to the currently posed armature.

Paste Pose Flipped

Paste the X axis mirrored buffered pose to the currently posed armature.

Here are important points:

• This tool works at the Blender session level, which means you can use it across armatures, scenes, and even files. However, the pose buffer is not saved, so you lose it when you close Blender.

• Only the selected bones are taken into account during copying (i.e. you copy only selected bones’ pose).

• What is copied and pasted is in fact the position, rotation or scale of each bone, in its own space. This means that the resulting pasted pose might be very different from the originally copied one, depending on:

  • And the current pose of their parents.

Examples of pose copy/paste.

The first copied pose (note that only two bones are selected and hence copied).	The pose pasted on the destination armature.	The pose mirror-pasted on the destination armature.
The same pose as above is copied, but this time with all bones selected.	The pose pasted on the destination armature.	The pose mirror-pasted on the destination armature.