The Pipeline Awards recognizes and honors the outstanding tools used in production and the individuals that further CG pipeline technologies.
Thank you to everyone who put a project or a person forward. Submissions have closed and our independent panel of judges has made its decisions. Awardees are being contacted directly.
The Pipeline Awards Show — December 2026
The 10th Pipeline Awards will be presented as a featured show, streamed on The Pipeline Conference YouTube channel, closing out our 2026 programme. Our awardees’ work will be on screen, each of them speaking to you directly from wherever they are, alongside messages from the judges. Afterwards we will open rooms on Discord so you can talk to the people whose tools you depend on.
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The Pipeline Awards recognizes excellence in the development and integration of CG pipelines. The tools and people that save loads of time and mix creative genius with a clear grasp of how to make a laborious process easier and faster. This is why we have created the Awards. In this story, they are the hero! And we want to celebrate them and their work!
| Pipeline Project Award | Pipeline Hero Award |
|---|---|
| Honors the tools worthy of industry recognition for the benefits they have brought to one or more studios | Honors practitioners who are worthy of recognition for contributions made to pipeline technologies |
In the summer of 2014, Shotgun Software created and hosted the first-ever Pipeline Awards to shine a light on those tools and the people who build them. In 2020, after six successful consecutive years of organizing the Awards, Shotgun Software handed the baton. And it is with great honor that The Pipeline Conference continues the tradition!
Click here to see the list of the previous Awards.
