Make pickaxe move on button press

Hey guys. Below is an example of my system. it’s the unity First person camera asset with my Pickaxe model attached to the controller. I’ve set up a mining system so that when you’re near ore a GUI will appear that basically allows you to press it and attempt to mine the ore. You will either gain the ore or miss it, simple. What i want to know is how to make it so that when i press the button my axe with play a little animation in which it’ll go up & then down. I have no idea how to work animations or make it do this in Unity so help is appreciated ^-^!

have a look at “The Animator Controller” and “Animator Scripting”

setup the animator with a trigger driven transition from idle to mining, have the button click set the trigger.