@Joepublic.

What is your point?
I see your render examples.
But I like to render humans. Normal human figures that is.
Not 1 in a 10.000 looks like what you show.
To build "humans" you need around 6000 to 8000 Poly's.

Take a look at this example at 6.400 poly's.
Look at the multiple promo pictures.

They clearly show that:

• Poly distribution is important; NOT Poly count, but Poly distribution.
• Show what Smoothing does
• Show that texture is far more important then number of Poly's to get a result.

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/536626

i add a screengrab from the above.

 

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