This was a collaboration with Colin Behrens.
Done in Blender Cycles, Substance Painter and Gimp with an awesome hdr and some textures from Poliigon.com!
We also used botaniq for this image.
The entire work time was about 15h.
We also reused our complex water shader from our Forgotten Childhood project for this render.
I hope you guys like this little fellow
The skin was textured using Substance Painter. We actually used a leather material as our base and painted on a few color variations to get the material to look more like hippo skin.