Girl

Model

My girl is the hardest to model among all the characters.  The first few tries were horrible.  
The final version is not perfect but oh well, who is? :D

Here's a comparison of my initial design and the final 3D model.

2D Character turnaround
3D Character turnaround



Character Setup

Ah Dou's setup is pretty straight forward.  I focused more on her upper body since she is not going to walk around.  

Full body setup.  The head is parented to the
neck joint.
Bending the body with the upper body control.



Bending the knees.
Eye Locators : Controls the eyes by rotation.
Back Spline : Controls the turning of the upper body.
Wrist Locators : Controls the movement of the arms.
                        Have extra attributes to control the
                        fingers.
Elbow Pole Locators : Controls the direction of the   
                                 elbows.


Facial Expressions

My girl is happy all the time. So I modelled out a few variation of happy faces. But since she's talking most of the time, her facial expressions were more controlled by the lip sync.

Default
Grin

Open Narrow
Open Wide

Shut



Lip Sync

Here are the lip sync blendshapes.

A , I
E

O
M , B, P

F , V

Lip Sync