Hi everyone, first of all forgive my noob question.
I run an advertisement company in Italy and a customer is asking us to "replicate" an effect seen in another video.

You can see the original video here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCeqtGHpJI

We are not specialized in visual effects so I would like to ask to you if this effect could be done with blender, HOW and how much does it costs.

We have a partnership with a local school that teaches Blender, and we can't afford (for now) a commercial 3d tool.
Would it be possible with open source tools to create such ad ?

Thanks and forgive my terrible english.