We'd love to get them higher res, but sadly, filesize. Keep in mind that the preview screens are taken in Dolphin at 1080p, while the Wii only runs at 480i. The resolution is much less noticable there (since everything else is blurry as well).
Depending on the character, there's pose dev time, time to set up the render, time actually rendering, and time editing in post.
In Lucas' case it all came together pretty quick, so pose dev time was maybe an hour or two, setting it up took another hour or two, actually rendering it took maybe 20-30 mins each recolour, then editing in post took about an hour or two (plus 10-20 mins for each recolour).
Wolf's editing in post time was much higher due to him having fur (which was all drawn on) so he took a few hours longer than usual to do.
Here's a comparison of unedited Wolf and edited fancy Wolf for reference:
Soon!
Likely not, because that would take a whooole bunch of time.
It's not a bother at all, we'd rather get everything fully fixed for you guys. Did you download yesterday's fix? We shrunk it down as it was freezing due to filesize.
This makes me happy, PM me when you're done for advice!