Automatic smoothing, yes. Then you can pick edges and face and control what angle to stop smoothing, so you can keep edges, but smooth other parts as you need to. The contour shaders just make the surfaces look smoother, they don't do anything to the mesh.

I rigged him. It's just a simple rig.
I put metal shaders on him and gave a him a subdivision (cause the reflection was making the polys show pretty bad).

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