So I made this low-res prince character, finished rendering it today.
Wireframes:
Like the image says, he's 3009 tris. Made in 3ds Max, rigged from scratch, rendered with mentalRay.
The "backstory" is: he's a shy prince, but he can remove his own heart and switch it for different weapons to gain various abilities.
Texture diffuse:
Since the eyes aren't spheres, I decided to animate them using texture offset, so I gave them their own smaller texture.
And I added a specular map:
Concept sketches:
