
Of course you could have done all those extrusions and adjustments
in one window, but in this case it made more sense to switch
viewports. Now it’s a matter of refining and/or optimizing the geom
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etry you’ve added to your mesh.
Step 3: Refine and Optimize the Neck Mass
Just looking at the neck area after all those extrusions, I can see the
area is too detailed and has too many faces compared to the rest of
the mesh and the relative importance of that area of the torso. The
neck is a whopping 12 segments at the top!
Switch to a Perspective viewport, select the top neck faces (if
they’re not selected already), and delete them. Then, select these
two vertices ...