[jdiwnab]

I disagree in that having one very complex model done and real looking lets you concentrate on more creative things. The whole team is designing the robot, your Inventor people make their model exact, why should you re-do it for creativity's sake? At the point where you are in robot design (as far as 3DSM not that you don't help else where), the robot's design and look are fact. But just having your robot in a movie is dull. You have to be creative to have it do something and have other stuff do things around it. Now it might be something if you wanted to change the look of the robot, where you could re-to it or adapt the model that is already done. But I agree with sandrag: use the Inventor model(s).