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Render Weekly Awards

The Render Weekly Awards celebrate the strongest product visualization case studies of the year – honoring complete works, not just single images, and the designers pushing the discipline forward.

A New Standard for
Product Vis.

Most design awards recognize finished products or brand campaigns. The RWA is the first awards program built specifically for product visualization, honoring the render, the case study, and the craft of communicating a product visually. It is a category that has never had its own stage.

There is no fixed winner count. The strongest work will be recognized. Awards are merit-based and discretionary, with trophies produced in-house by Sample Studio, CNC milled from aluminum.

How It Works

01

Submit Your Work

Upload your best product renders as a complete case study. Images, process, and the story behind it.

02

Get Judged by Pros

Industry leaders review every entry on craft, clarity, storytelling, and visual impact.

03

Win a Trophy and Get Published

Winners are featured, awarded, and celebrated across the Render Weekly platform and community.

Several awards per category, based on your tier of experience.

Your tier reflects your situation, not your talent. This is an open call across all categories — no cap on winners, just a high bar. Plus two sponsored awards with even more to gain.

Student

$10

Currently enrolled students. Valid .edu or equivalent required.

Independent

$40

Solo professionals, freelancers, and hobbyists.

Studio

$200

Teams, agencies, and studios entering collaborative work.

Sponsor awards

Best Visualization of Design and Engineering

Best Visualization of Design and Engineering

Presented by

Autodesk Fusion

The Best Integration of Design and Engineering Award, sponsored by Autodesk Fusion, celebrates products that achieve an intentional and thoughtful balance between form and function. This award recognizes work where aesthetics and performance are developed in harmony—where engineering constraints inform design creativity, and design vision elevates technical execution. It honors solutions that not only solve meaningful, real-world problems with ingenuity and precision, but do so with elegance—proving that the most impactful products are as beautiful as they are functional.

Future of Work Award

Future of Work Award

Presented by

Logitech

Best visualization of tools, peripherals, and hardware that enable creative work. Input devices, professional hardware, emerging interfaces — anything that helps someone master their craft. If it belongs on a serious desk or in capable hands, we want to see how you rendered it.

Exclusive Partner Perks

KeyShot

Open access to KeyShot

KeyShot is running a free, full-access trial alongside the Render Weekly Awards. No watermarks, no limitations. This is a good excuse to spend some time in KeyShot Studio if you haven't yet!

Visune

Exclusive materials pack for all entrants

Every awards entrant receives access to a curated Visune materials pack, offering a sneak peek at assets from their next-generation materials launch. The pack includes high-quality, production-ready PBR materials from industry leaders in digital render assets, giving participants new surfaces to elevate their visualizations ahead of the public release.

A Tangible Symbol For Digital Craft

The 2026 Render Weekly Award trophy is awarded to the winners of this year's awards. Made from CNC-milled aluminum, designed in-house, and manufactured for this event. STL download available below if you can't wait!

Judged by Community Experts

Industrial pros and long-time contributors to Render Weekly.

Key Dates

Entries Open

Mar 16

Entries Close

Apr 13

Judging

Apr 13 - Apr 19

Winners Announced

By Apr 20

Common questions

The RWA accepts work within and adjacent to the product design space. That includes industrial design, transportation design, packaging, concept design, robotics, consumer technology, and similar disciplines. If it lives in the product world, it likely qualifies. Work outside that scope - character design, food visualization, illustration, photography, and similar fields - is not eligible for this cycle.

Entries are complete case studies. We encourage showing the process alongside the final images if it helps the story of the project, but it is not required.

Yes. Each project requires a separate entry and fee. There is no limit on how many you can submit.

Judges evaluate each submission as a complete project, not a single render. That means creative direction, how well the execution serves it, whether the project holds together as a cohesive body of work, and whether the work feels distinctly authored. Supporting process documentation and written descriptions can strengthen a submission if they add context or intent - but only if they actually add something beyond describing what's already visible.

Yes. You retain full ownership and rights to all submitted work. We only use images for awards promotion and platform display.

Anyone. Students, independents, and studios.

Render Weekly Awards

Your work deserves
to be seen.

Bring your strongest project. Enter the Render Weekly Awards.