i can say that both of those models were sculpted first, then made the low poly version as the final item.
really ? i thought it was something like this :
you should check out the animation course here in cgcookie, they start with the principles.
Already did which is great and cover the basics i need to start animating, but now i want to do it with my own models.
Don’t be scared of sculpt approach. 🙂 there are far scarier things in world than that. 🙂
haha, mmkay… i was just worried that sculpting require lots of drawing skills and whatnot