In this video, we talk about how to use drivers in Blender to link the movement of objects together! This can allow you to animate doors, clocks, hinges, engines, and much more – anything where one motion is driven by another motion!

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Introduction
0:25 – Modeling the Clock and hands
1:22 – Setting the object origin to the proper rotation point
2:32 – Adding constraints to limit the rotation of the hands to just the X axis
3:23 – Using a driver to link the hour hand to the minute hand
4:32 – Using a driver formula to make the hour hand move slower
5:42 – Other driver tutorials for Blender