I dont have much time to spare but I've set aside the next couple of monday evenings to try and hammer out some sort of horror (pun intended) for this competition...
I wanted something no-one else had done yet so I'm going for a mad-scientist experient gone wrong. My monster will be the mad scientist himself but after a hideous accident he has become disfigured beyond recognition into this!
Proportion wise, I was thinking something quite cartoony to try and overcome the low-poly restriction by avoiding realistic shapes. The stature of a WoW Dwarf seemed appropriate to something this silly.
As for an environment. I haven't gotten that far. I'm going to try and keep the squid-scientist down to 2k tris leaving me some to make his laboratory or similar... I was thinking maybe an octopus in the background somewhere with similar electrodes on it's head. Possibly in a vat of fluid?