Heres another couple of characters created for a GameArtisan comp.
Total polys 2900 for the combined characters, and they share a 512 diffuse texture map.
Based on Mowgli from Jungle book riding a lil elephant, ahh how sweet.

Heres a low poly character I made for a competition over at Gameartisans.com, 2700 polygons, 1 x 512 diffuse and 1 x 512 normal map, rendered in Mental Ray.
The character is based on the lead in the Squaresoft rpg Crystal Chronicles.