I used Blender 2.68, the scene was rendered in Cycles render engine. It's took me something like a week to complied this piece.(including - concept, modeling, textures, setting the environment, rendering, post. etc.)
Blendo was created on Toshiba Satelite C655, 2x 2Gb processors for that time. The actual final render:
figure - Full Glob. Illumination.; 60 – samples, 0 – preview
detail - Figure - Full Glob. Illumination.; 150 – samples, 0 – preview