I made a little collage of the expressions of the game character I created in Blender for my WIP Visual Novel I'm creating in Ren'Py, named Interview with a lonely machine.
Since you'll pretty much be seeing her on-screen throughout the game, I wanted a large library of varied poses and facial expressions. So I ended up learning OSS 3D-program Blender for this, designed, sculpted and rigged her from scratch. Now I have a quite flexible model I can pose for all sorts of expressions. A 3D model in VN always has the risk of feeling cold and too clean, so I try to avoid that, but still have a lot to learn. I get help from the fact that she's not meant to be entirely human-looking. I'm starting to get the hang of making her somewhat relatable, I think.

This story is a 'chamber piece' of a conversation between two very strange entities; a very lonely machine-girl and the sub-process (you) she created to help her recover herself, but maybe most importantly, to keep her company.

It's very easy for a 3D character to feel sterile or cold, so I've tried hard to work with her face rig here. I hope that the fact that she's an android and not meant to be 100% realistic helps me out here ... I hope to have a character one can relate to as one talks to her.

Feedback is appreciated!

Really great characterisations, Griatch. I've been trolling through them giving names like, anger, surprise and embarassment.

Griatch, Your work is impressive! Your main character, displaying so many different human expressions and emotions, is a work of art.

Thank you for sharing your art.

Not bad at all. Her look expressions very realistic. She looks cute in places, tough in others and I agree with OMG , many emotions can be mentioned.