Finishing and Refining - Game Character Development with Maya - page 192

FIGURE 3.84 Extrude the edges around the upper hand again.
More work on the vertices is needed now, shaping the palm, upper hand, and upper wrist
areas until the entire hand is correct. Start by rounding off the wrist area and working your
way up. We appear to have quite a few polygons in the palm area, and it would be easier to
edit if we removed some of the unnecessary ones. Select the edges shown in Figure 3.85
(left); they should lie between the tendons on the back of the hand. Select the same edges
on the underside, too, and then go to Edit Polygons > Collapse to remove them ( Figure
3.85 , right).
FIGURE 3.85 Collapse some of the edges making up the hand, cleaning up the area and
making it easier to edit.