[ QUOTE ] The one ont he left is 488 POLYS, not tris... the assignment was to keep below 500 POLYS... it's 976 tris if your counting tris. [/ QUOTE ] Which everyone in the industry does. Sadly, your teacher probably doesn't know the difference. Just because you have a 200 sided polygon doesn't mean you know how to model…
Err..your model looks like it's around 1100 triangles, make sure you're not just counting the polygons in general, it's the triangles that matter. To drop this model down to 500 tris, you'll have to make his limbs 6 sided or less, same with the torso, and also reduce the cross-sectional loops. Any low poly model should…