Depending on which objects you include in the Live paint group it will affect your object hierarchy. It will group things that you might not want to group (depending on what you want to do with your puppet in Character Animator). Maybe you want to exchange the arms? You will have to ask in the Character Animator forum as well and present them your puppet and ask how to build it and if you need to keep arms separate.
Maybe before making this kind of details you first want to try it out as is in order to get more experience in both apps? You cannot do this without experience. And so you will need to live with some flaws and iron them out along the way. The learning process takes time and nobody can spare you that time and also there is no way to cut short.
Thanks for the input and help to everyone who posted. I appreciate the honest feedback and it helped me learn a lot about the process. In the end, I was able to complete the task by using the stroke feature along with the dashed line feature. 