Minecraft skin poser

Pose any Minecraft skin from a URL. Pick one of 18 named poses, from waving and sitting to the thinking pose, or set each joint yourself, and get the player’s skin back as a PNG in that pose.

The interactive character poser

The playground is the point-and-click version: type a username, choose a pose from the list, drag a slider for each joint of the character and turn the camera around it. The preview is the real render, and the URL it builds is ready to copy into a page, a Discord bot or a server website.

Open the skin poser

Pose a Minecraft skin with one parameter

Posing a skin should not require a 3D program. With Skin Render it is one query parameter on the body (or bust) render:

https://skinrender.dev/render/069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5/body?pose=wave

default

wave

sit

sneak

dab

The names are plain English and each one is a complete set of rotations for the head, the torso, both arms and both legs. Because the render is generated on request from the player’s current skin, the image stays correct when they change skin, and because the URL is deterministic it is cached everywhere along the way.

All 18 Minecraft skin poses

Every named pose on the default Steve skin. Poses marked anim are cycles and accept frame; each one opens in the poser with the pose already chosen, and the poses documentation has the same list at a larger size.

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  Standing pose

  pose=default

  Standing still, arms and legs straight.Open the standing pose in the poser

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  Walking pose

  pose=walkanim

  Mid-stride walk cycle; use frame to pick the phase.Open the walking pose in the poser

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  Running pose

  pose=runanim

  Wider, faster stride with a slight forward lean.Open the running pose in the poser

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  Waving pose

  pose=waveanim

  Right arm raised and waving.Open the waving pose in the poser

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  Sitting pose

  pose=sit

  Sitting down, legs forward, as on a minecart or chair.Open the sitting pose in the poser

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  Sneaking pose

  pose=sneak

  Crouched, as when sneaking in game.Open the sneaking pose in the poser

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  Pointing pose

  pose=point

  Right arm pointing straight ahead.Open the pointing pose in the poser

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  Dab pose

  pose=dab

  The dab.Open the dab pose in the poser

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  Zombie pose

  pose=zombie

  Both arms straight out in front.Open the zombie pose in the poser

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  T-pose

  pose=tpose

  Arms straight out to the sides.Open the T-pose in the poser

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  Cheering pose

  pose=cheer

  Both arms raised, head tipped back.Open the cheering pose in the poser

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  Thinking pose

  pose=think

  Hand at the chin, head tilted.Open the thinking pose in the poser

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  Flexing pose

  pose=flex

  Both arms flexed upward.Open the flexing pose in the poser

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  Salute pose

  pose=salute

  Right hand at the brow.Open the salute pose in the poser

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  Dancing pose

  pose=danceanim

  One arm up, one down, hips turned.Open the dancing pose in the poser

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  Punching pose

  pose=punch

  Right arm thrown forward, torso twisted.Open the punching pose in the poser

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  Shrug pose

  pose=shrug

  Arms out, palms up, head tilted.Open the shrug pose in the poser

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  Jumping pose

  pose=jump

  Arms back, legs tucked, as at the top of a jump.Open the jumping pose in the poser

How the pose system works

The player model has six movable parts: head, torso (which carries the head and arms with it), left arm, right arm, left leg and right leg. Each part rotates around three axes, described with the aviation words the rest of the API uses: pitch (forward and back), yaw (twist) and roll (out to the side). Six parts times three axes is eighteen numbers, and that is all a pose is. pose=wave is simply a preset that fills in those eighteen numbers; default sets them all to zero.

Any of the eighteen can be set directly with a parameter named after the part and the axis, such as rightArmPitch, headYaw or leftLegRoll. Because pitch is by far the most used, the four limbs have short aliases: rightArm=90 means rightArmPitch=90. All angles are degrees (radians with units=rad) and wrap around.

• Positive pitch swings a limb forward; on the head it tips the chin down. rightArm=90 is straight out in front, rightArm=180 straight up.
• Positive roll moves a limb outward, away from the body, which is how the T-pose is made: leftArmRoll=90&rightArmRoll=90.
• Yaw twists a part on its own axis, most useful on the head (headYaw=-25 to glance sideways) and the torso (bodyYaw=20 for a turned upper body while the legs stay put).

Build your own pose

Named poses and explicit joints combine: start from the pose, then any joint you name replaces that joint only. This is how you get a wave with the head turned toward the hand, a sit with crossed-looking legs, or a salute with a slight lean.

You can also skip the named pose entirely and build from zero. A pose of your own is a handful of parameters:

https://skinrender.dev/render/853c80ef3c3749fdaa49938b674adae6/body?yaw=-30&headPitch=8&headYaw=15&bodyRoll=-6&rightArmPitch=-110&rightArmRoll=-20&leftLegRoll=12

Note the last parameter: yaw without a part name is the camera, not a joint. Camera parameters describe where you look from; joint parameters describe the figure. They are independent, so the same pose can be shown from any angle. The poser has a slider for every one of these, which is the quickest way to find the numbers.

Animation and GIF frames

walk, run, dance, wave are cycles, and frame (0 to 1) picks where in the cycle the figure is. format=apng returns the whole loop as one animated PNG. For a GIF, render a sequence of frames and stitch them together with ImageMagick, ffmpeg or Pillow; the poses documentation has the exact commands. Two rules make it look right: keep every frame at the same size, and add fit=false so the camera does not re-frame each frame around the moving limbs.

Poses on the bust

The bust render shows head, torso and arms, so upper-body poses read well there and the legs are simply not drawn. think, salute, shrug, wave and point make good portraits; fov=40&pitch=-10 adds a little drama. Leg parameters are accepted but have no visible effect on a bust.

https://skinrender.dev/render/069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5/bust?size=320&pitch=-10&fov=40&pose=shrug

Every parameter is listed in the poses documentation, and the playground builds any of these URLs for you.