Model Optimization - Game Character Development with Maya - page 320

FIGURE 5.60 Collapse the two edges on each side of the fingernail.
That completes the first stage of reducing the hand; you can see the results in Fig-
ure 5.61 . We could leave it as-is, but there's more we can do. I don't think we will
see a major difference in quality if we move forward one more step, which will re-
duce the polygon count by another 160.