Let me answer before Kovu.

Ogre won't decrease the poly number of our objects so we must make it lowpoly as much as we can.

Anyway I've just checked out my old X-men Rogue model. Its head is built up from 1500 faces, but I wasn't bothered by face limits that time, so I let myself to make it more detailed. So I guess that proves that we can make lion faces that can show the expressions we want, with less then 1200 polys for a head, and with more then 1800 polys for the body. < I love these smilies :Ooo: