Hey @jwinfield , that’s awesome! I’m excited to see the pet you come up with 🙂
I would probably keep the two characters as separate objects and texture them individually as well, which means that they would need to have separate materials to load in the separate images. If you want to reuse the procedural parts, you could turn those sections into one or more group nodes and reuse them in both the pet and the main material. Hope that helps and good luck!