Transcription: Hi there, my name is Alex Tilford and in this tutorial we're going to be looking at how to use splines in Blender. Now when it comes to using splines in Blender, be it for rigging tentacles, rope, tails or even your extendable robotic arms, the technique is basically the same and very simple to use. So before we get into how to set up our splines, we need to take a quick look at how they work. So a spline is a method of rigging that works by deforming a chain of bones along a curve. And we can actually control the points along this curve by using a second armature which is called hooks. And th ...