Every single piece of this illustartion (except for the most basic rectangular and circular elements) was drafted in CorelDRAW before being imported to a 3D app for extrusion/light/render. You can imagine how ecstatic I was when I found out that I could import CorelDRAW 2D vector data and mess with it in Lightwave. This was my very first model and it took around 8 months to complete... On and off.
There is an animated version of this shot RIGHT OVER HERE.