Camera Controller in unity skewing 3d character

The first thing that comes to mind is a scaling issue. Sometimes when you parent/child objects, scaling will go weird and things will look skewed. For instance, I was working on small project that involved bows and arrows, and when the arrows would hit a surface, the surface would become the arrows parent (think an arrow stuck in a wall).

After the arrow became the child of some surfaces/meshes, the arrow would look skewed and it had something to do with scaling. I fixed it eventually, but I can't remember how at the moment... sorry about that. But I don't remember it being too big of a deal to sort out.

I would suggest you look into scaling, that sounds like the culprit to me. Hope that helps, good luck!

P.S. I didn't check these links out thoroughly, but I imagine you might find some answers here:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/how-to-scale-child-object-independent-of-parent.174289/
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/375221/do-not-inherit-scale-from-parent-object.html
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/147816/how-to-avoid-scaling-heritage-when-parenting.html