Roblox animation, headless

First time on this machine? Read LOCAL.md in this folder. If it does not exist, run the roblox-skills-setup skill (or copy LOCAL.template.md to LOCAL.md and fill it in). LOCAL.md holds your paths and tool locations; it is yours and is never shared.

Author animation as data (a JSON spec of poses over time), bake it into a real Blender Action, render it, and look at the result before believing it.

The loop is: author → render every frame → tile into a contact sheet → look → correct → repeat. Everything here exists because some step of that loop caught a failure that every other check missed.

Read this first: the trap that wastes the most time

Most Roblox rigs ship a Blender Action holding their rest pose. Blender re-evaluates that Action during render. So if you set pose values and then render: