3D Avatar for Mike IA Platform

Request for Quotation
Mike IA Professional 3D Avatar Creation
Project Objective
We are seeking a developer, 3D artist, or animation studio to create a professional human avatar for our Mike IA platform.
The scope of this project is limited exclusively to the creation of the avatar, facial rigging, and animation assets.
No AI development, API integration, database work, cloud infrastructure, speech recognition, or software development is required.

Avatar Requirements
Character
• Professional adult male
• Approximately 40 to 55 years old
• Friendly and welcoming appearance
• Suitable for healthcare, government, municipal, and public service environments
• Business professional attire
• Realistic human appearance
• Modern and trustworthy look

Facial Rigging Requirements
The avatar must include a complete facial rig allowing:
• Eye movement
• Eye blinking
• Eyebrow movement
• Mouth movement
• Facial expressions
• Head movement
• Cheek movement
• Jaw movement
Advanced Facial Rig
The facial rig must support:
• Minimum of 52 facial blendshapes
• Real-time facial animation compatibility
• Real-time lip synchronization compatibility
• Viseme-ready facial rig
The avatar must be suitable for future real-time AI conversational systems.

Required Animations
Idle
• Natural breathing
• Subtle body movement
• Eye blinking
• Eye movement
Listen
• Attentive posture
• Natural eye contact
Talk
• Speaking animation
• Facial movement during speech
• Natural head movement
Smile
• Natural smile animation
Nod
• Head nodding animation
Greeting
• Welcome gesture
Goodbye
• Farewell gesture
Thinking
• Natural thinking expression

Animation Quality Requirements
The avatar must support:
• Smooth animation transitions
• No visible animation snapping
• Natural movement flow
• Professional presentation quality
Animation transitions must smoothly blend between:
• Idle
• Listen
• Talk
• Smile • Idle without visible interruption.

Lip Synchronization Compatibility
The avatar must be fully prepared for future real-time lip synchronization.
Requirements:
• Viseme-ready mouth system
• English compatibility
• French compatibility
• Natural speech animation support
The avatar must support standard viseme mouth shapes required for realistic speech animation.

Eye Behavior
The avatar must support:
• Natural eye movement
• Eye tracking capability
• Natural blinking
• Realistic attention behavior
The avatar should not appear static or robotic.

Performance Requirements
The avatar must be optimized for real-time deployment.
Requirements:
• Target 60 FPS animation
• Real-time rendering
• Low-latency animation response
• Optimized polygon count
• Optimized textures
• Suitable for web deployment
• Suitable for kiosk deployment

Deliverables
The supplier must provide:
• Complete 3D avatar model
• Fully rigged character
• Advanced facial rig
• Blendshapes
• All animation files
• Textures and materials
• Source files
• Exported production files

Preferred Formats
• FBX
• GLB / GLTF
• Blender (.blend)

Ownership
All intellectual property rights, source files, models, textures, rigs, blendshapes, and animations shall become the exclusive property of Électronique Microtech Canada Inc. upon project completion.
No royalties, subscriptions, or recurring licensing fees shall apply.

Final Deliverable
One fully completed, professional-grade, realistic 3D avatar with advanced facial rigging, smooth animation system, and lip-sync-ready architecture suitable for future integration into the Mike IA platform.