Hasta La Motion!

I’m trying to do a little business math. I’m looking to figure out a typical time and cost for the production of an on-screen cg character. Probably both a digital double for far away shots, and something akin to the quality of a hero close up, such as Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, the Balrog from LOTR, etc. Obviously I understand that this is completely relative to the amount of work needed to put into it. The more complex the longer it takes (probably with Benjamin Button).

Do you have any knowledge or experience in this area? I’m going through it sort of like this:

Modelling [ x amount of people, on x amount of salary, and x amount of weeks / days]
Texturing [ " ]
Hair ( I wonder how long King Kong took to do!) [ " ]
Rigging (controls, expressions, muscle systems, etc) [ " ]

Everything up till animation and rendering.

If anyone worked on those characters or others like it, could you tell me? I’m looking for something like "It took 5 months to get this X character from beginning to ready for animation with about 10 people working on it from start to finish."

I’ll probably post this on another forum or two, but I was curious to see if anyone had any insight on this topic.

Thanks!
Cory