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Cycles is a brand new rendering engine built right into blender.
It’s flexible, fast and above all else: produces more realistic results. Forget everything you know about lighting and rendering in Blender… the game has officially changed 
In this tutorial you will discover:
- The difference between the internal renderer and Cycles
- Some of the cool features of Cycles
- How to create your very first Cycles render
- Using lights, materials, textures and bump mapping
- How I made the donut scene
Finished Result
Mmm no calories
More shots at BlenderArtists.org
Further Inspiration
Here’s some inspiring works from the Blender community using Cycles:
Further Links
- FAQ by Thomas Dinges (developer)
- Bedroom Cycles File
Cycles is big news for Blender and I can’t wait to see what works come out of it.
Post any Cycles images you create in the comments below 
Hi, great tutorial thanks for the nice explanation … but how did you do the sprinkles? Probably cylinders distributed with the particle system, still I cant figure out how to place them easily nicely distributed on top of other surfaces. Most likely there are lots of ways to do awesome stuff with that … any tutorials ?