Thanks both of you for your answers! This is always something I’ve wondered when it comes to modeling in general (when parts should be separate or modeled together). Thinking about it in terms of animation is helpful. I’m a novice when it comes to texturing so I think my inclination was always to keep pieces separate to make it easy to apply different textures with more predictable results. Going to keep going through the course as Omar suggested to see how it goes.
