Here is the wireframe and first hipoly, I'm doing the skull by the blade in zbrush and I'm actually going to approach the gryphn in photoshop, I dunno if the result don't turn out as good I might go back and sculpt the gryphn as well.
Here is the first bake, The skull seem very flat even though I have a separate geometry from the blade, a friend suggested that I should extrude it out a bit so I'm going to try that. Sitting on 951 tris so far, and the gryphn was made in Photoshop. Let me know what you guys think!