People forget that technology has moved on, the creative software we have at our disposal now is mind shattering compared to the late 90's, not to mention the power of our modern day interwebs, an artist could use Zbrush to knock out a talking head in a day, compare this to the hundreds of thousands of dollars it took to sculpt actual clay heads and have them laser scanned, then the beastly computer (by 90's standards) required to handle that data.