[ART] How to Animate?

[PutraenusAlivius]

Note: I'm using Blender so it may or may not apply for you

Spoiler below!

Well, I'm not a professional rigger. But I do know some stuff about it.
1) Make the mesh
2) Add an armature then extrude it until you have your basic skeleton
3) After that, make every bone's parent to be the mesh
4) Check online tuts if you did something wrong
5) Check Pose Mode if succeed
6) ???
7) PROFIT