It's Frog from Chrono Trigger! Everything is 3d except the sky. The grass and closer pine trees are vray proxies (each close pine tree was 300k polys). The further trees on the mountains are cones with planar mapped renders of the closer 3d pine trees. Zbrush for touching up the frog/rocks everything else in 3ds max/Vray and comped in PS with other adjustments. Tim Jones' work and techniques provided inspiration and helped me with the environment creation a great deal.

(Old render: http://www.freewebs.com/straafe/AtkPose1noDOFopt.jpg)