Meats Meier is a pretty famous CGI artist and this is one of his reels. Really amazing stuff that might serve to show how much one person can do, so it’s quite inspirational I would say! I don’t know everything he has used but I do know a lot of this work was made with Maya and ZBrush. I hope you enjoy it!
Here are some images:
He creates these complex, threaded forms in ZBrush by using several layers of complex masks to define the general shape he wants, and then he refines it, smooths the shapes and gradually builds the image.
The devil images are pretty famous now, and he created many variations of these.
Eric Chamberlain 