From the credits:
Concept, visuals, and score by melodysheep, aka John D. Boswell.
Narrated by Will Crowley.
Additional visuals by Lynn Huberty, Tim Stupak, NASA, and Evolve.
Featuring soundbites from Nick Lane, Jonathan Losos, Caleb Scharf, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Chris Crowe, Jack Cohen, and Jill Tarter.
3D models by:
Andrey Gritsuk, Alex Albinyana, Alexander Tobler, Andrey Shinkov, Millionth Vector, Jazz-Cousins, Nick Govacko, DCA Tabletop, Dimitar Grozev, Maynardd, Bernhard van der Horst, Alexandr Ivlev, 3DRTcom, AssetKit, Tebogo, Igor Puškarić, The French Monkey
And from his replies in peoples questions:
Cinema 4D, Octane and AE
2080 Ti and a 980 Ti GPUs (he had to break warranty and replace the thermal paste twice)
Took him 8 months