Let's put it this way... If you're creating vfx shots, you need the details; for toon shots, you don't need high-res.

You can come up with a model almost as close to the picture above with low count of polys. I don't see the need to go high-res for that. The main thing is to plan! Don't just go for high-res for no reason. It's a good practice to keep your model as low res as possible without losing the details you want. Another good practice is don't model what you can texture

This post has been edited by zhenyang: Nov 30 2005, 09:19 PM