My first donut render had 40,000 triangles because I never checked the poly count

William Miller · 2026-09-17T00:05:03.987327+00:00

I started Blender about 6 weeks ago and my first project was a simple pink donut. I kept adding subdivisions and tiny details without looking at the bottom of the screen, and by the time I tried to animate it, my laptop fan sounded like a hair dryer. A guy in a Discord server told me to switch on statistics in the viewport overlay, and my jaw hit the floor when I saw 40,000 tris on a donut. Now I check that number before every render. Does anyone else ignore the poly count until their machine starts choking, or is that just a me problem?

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