Project C - Bear

This is my WIP for a project I'm doing with a couple friends.  Right now we are in the process of creating the main 3d characters.  This is my Z-brush rough sculpt, still needs more detail work and I need to come up with a concrete concept for the armor. 

 Profile view

 3/4 view

 This is the head piece I had in my concept but it's looking too similar to The Golden Compass Bear.  Def. want to change that...any suggestions?

 front

 Paws

This is the first thing i made in maya the stub mesh.  Tryed to keep it nice and even quads as much as possible.  making it Zbrush friendly.  Then i imported it into Z and pretty much started sculpting.  I  shoulda had more polys in the head and feet cause they need more detail but oh well ill have to subdivide the whole thing a bit more.