ok I have almost finished the modeling apart from a few small details and stitching the little fella together. I need to look at a few more tutorials about texturing and stitching. I need more detail around the eye. Man this has been a learning process.
Anyway, here is the little guy in the first rough texture that is totally planar and to be honest the bump map is made up of his subdiv wireframe - exported the wireframe image to photoshop and turned it into the bump.
The eye is really detailed and is made up if about 3 textures and shading groups.
Cool!