thin up the torso, make mounds, thin out the jaw, reduce height.

there, girl.

before you ask, I have at least some experience in modeling and converting a male model to a female model takes 30 minutes, maybe an hour depending on extra thingies like the costume. it is not fucking hard.

as for texturing, not my field, but considering that it's their job, it should not take as long as they're playing it up as.

as for the animating, take the male animations and make slight alterations to fit the body. Now, a full set of animations like that takes around maybe a half a week or so, which is even less if you use a capture suit instead of doing it by hand.

rendering using physics takes around a week more, but considering that I have a crappy computer, that's not very accurate in regards to time, so they would be a little faster then me.

besides, the fuss is less that they've refused to make female characters and more on the lame excuses they put up for it. It is not hard to script, model, animate or voice act a female character, at all.

they could have said that they were late in development and that the character concepts had already been decided, among other things. but they didn't. which would enrage any person associated with these jobs in the industry or who have cursory knowledge of it AND the obligatory overreactors. so woops, they done fucked up big time.