#gamedev #gameart Just because something needs a lot of edges to make it have a round silhouette, doesn't mean you have to use the same number in each sucessive edge loop. As they get smaller, they need less to pull off the illusion of roundness. 
That is 1/3 of the tris. With a normal map, you can't even tell it has no lip or thickness in most games.
One of my bigbears is jagged looking wheels when they could have been smoother than my chat up lines, because there are loops and loops worth of waste
If you apply this logic across your scenes, the results will be much smoother objects, at a fraction of the memory overhead.
The one on the right has half the polycount. And yet the handle is smoother. What you save you can spend.
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