A few years ago someone posted this on Reddit claiming to have made this character in blender. I thought that was really fucking dumb because it would take less than an hour and it was clearly ai. They argued with me when I said as much, so I did it myself in about 30 minutes to prove a point.
I learnt 3DS Max by myself, I'm sure I can learn Blender unless the interface is as obscure as Gimp's, which I don't think it is from what I've seen (only program I've needed a manual for was AutoCAD, and that was back when you had to type in the commands; helped me learn a bit of lisp too, before they switched to VBA — which I was already familiar with — for the macros).
Problem is finding the time and motivation, but knowing that an expert can pull this scene off in half an hour helps.