Faces, Hands, and Clothes
For each of your characters, follow their progress through the story reel to see if complicated modeling items such as faces and hands actually appear on screen, and if so, for how long. It is possible that certain characters would never have a full frame face shot, or that their hands would never appear in the frame without being in motion. If that’s the case, you may be able to save modeling time by only using simplified versions of those portions of the model.
Remember that anything that moves quickly will be obscured to a certain degree by motion blur, which can be very forgiving.
Also, I have seen many people model an entire body with great muscle definition and detail, only to cover it with clothing in the end. ...
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