Create a Luxury Napa Deli Interior | $500 Cash + Sponsor Prizes
Hi Polycount,
7CGI is hosting a free global 3D Visualization Challenge based on a real client-style hospitality brief.
The challenge is to transform an existing deli into a refined Italian deli and café concept suitable for a luxury hotel in Downtown Napa, California.
Everyone works from the same brief, but artists are free to explore their own design, mood, composition, and visual style.
Prizes and recognition:
• $500 cash first prize
• More than $3,000 in confirmed cash and sponsor prizes
• Prizes for first, second, and third place
• Finalists and winners featured by 7CGI
• Judging by professionals from CG Spectrum, Chaos, Binyan Studios, Digital Bunch, TECMA Solutions, we are narrativ., and Helldoor Visual Studio
The challenge is open worldwide to 3D artists, interior designers, architects, and studios.
Each participant creates one final still interior image. Artists retain the copyright to their work.
Fully AI-generated entries are not accepted. AI may only be used for minor post-production support.
Submission deadline: June 29, 2026
Full brief and registration:
https://7cgi.com/3d-rendering-challenge/deli-shop-visualization-2026/
We would love to see how Polycount artists interpret the same space in completely different ways. Participants are also welcome to share their work-in-progress images in the 3D Art Showcase & Critiques section.
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The judges include "A Digital Platform for Real Estate business that develops Software, Hardware, Digital Architecture, Marketing and Communications." ( on the website of TECMA solutions ) as well as most of them beeing real-estate studios\content platforms.
I might be wrong, and i hope i am, but would be shitty to see the winner have his work actually come to life based on the contest and beeing paid 500 bucks for it.
To me it looks a bit more like opportunities for Rebus and iRender to sell render credits, because 50 credits probably isn't enough to complete a single project?
Anyhow, I think it's probably a good thing for artists, as long as they already want to add more viz work to their portfolio, and want to use a well-defined real-world project as their scope.