Since 2016 is up for students and this product is out with the software, I hope to see some teams using SOLIDWORKS Visualize (formerly BunkSpeed) if it is available to them. You can add motion to your renderings and make movies of your robots.
The level of rendering capability in this program is intense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM_u8Sr8bb8
Here is a tutorial of a 69' Camaro rendering if anyone wants to mess with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp3h57a50wo