Whales on Legs

I designed this creature to fit in the ancient cetacean family lineage (some kind of Pakicetid) sometime in the early Eocene epoch roughly 50 million years ago.
I based the anatomy on fossil remains from the time but the character design is heavily based on hippos and alligators - one for the family relation and the other for their similar niche in the ecosystem.

The character was done in blender, and the Cycles renders were edited in Gimp.