bingowings wrote: I'm more prone to believe it was the other way around.
That's confirmed in the Art of TPM book, pg.42
The Neimodians were designed after the look of the battle droids had been finalized. On the assumption that the Neimodians had created the droids in their own image,
On the Jacob Epstein 'Rock Drill': http://blog.tate.org.uk/?p=6186