Paying credits for 2D and 3D art for a game

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I'm making an un-named game right now and I'm willing to pay credits for those who will help me out with a little bit of art.

For 15k:
In games you might go to a sign and it prints text onto a 2D rectangle on the screen.
For example this is some fanmade game of animal crossing.

The style of surface which text will be written upon is up to you art guys ^.^
Targa file format is prefered, but not neccesary.

For 15k:
I need a 3D model of the sign. My game engine only allows one texture per model, so the sign has to have some fancy UV mapping of one texture to look good.
.3ds or .obj file format is prefered, but not neccesary.

For 100k:
I am decent at making pretty 3D worlds, but horrible at making characters. I need a protagonist, a hero. It may be male or female, but I need it to be small, like mario size. If you can rig a skeleton onto it that would be nice, but i won't require it. This is looking like it's going to be a platformer game, if that helps at all. Again, my engine supports ONE TEXTURE per model, so the texture file must include all textures on the person, and clever UV mapping must be used to make it look good.
.3ds or .obj file format is prefered, but not neccesary.

All people who help with my game will be included in the end credits.