Hi, i made these two characters this week. It took me about 6 hours to model, texture and rig them. I started out with boxmodeling in maya, then took them into zbrush, and then back to maya to rig them.
I also made an animation, you can see it here. The animation is not rendered, its a playblast from the timeline in maya.
http://www.savefile.com/files/5923158
Joyster