Reply To: I feel really stupid but I can't seem to get the simple arm rig to work the same as yours…when I rotate the child bone, …

[duketogo]

Yea. It helps! 

Meshes are not physically based material. Being beyond reality doesn’t mean divinity though.

So if faces are facing wrong directions, they get messy with rotation. 

Especially groups of faces rotating with a pivot point. I guess I get it now.

Thanks