Pure badassery! Didn't read the story cuz I'm sleepin, but now I have something interesting to do tomorrow friday night.

I think you could use for learning to animate, a place holder low poly humanoid model. Without rendering - just to learn the tricks. Dunno, one of the reasons I stop doing 3D sculptures is cuz laptop chokes itself when too much details and polys... So I understand those shortcomings. Last piece I did took me forever to test lighting and adjust camera, and that's not fun at all, :(

BTW you sculpt first and then retopo the whole thing? Retopo is something I always neglected, but honestly I was more interested in doing 3D concepts than actual models 4 production.