Compressing polys?

[Bain_Rebirth]

I have a very large model, it's hand of course has each individual finger made out of a lot of polys. I have tried squishing the model but it has not helped. Is there any way I can decrease the amount of polys in the hand to lower the quality of the model?

 

[GhostWolf]

Merge them...? what's even the question here?

 

[BlinkBoy]

try using retopology techniques, they produce the best results for optimization at the cost of remaking the unwrap and skinning.