E-Cycles 2.91 released and 25% Off Black Friday Sales

E-Cycles is the fastest photo-realistic render engine for Blender offering 100% compatible with Cycles. You can use all your assets and add-ons the minute you unpack E-Cycles with huge speed- ups and new features on top. With E-Cycles 2.91, you also get persistent data for fast animation renderings, state-of-the-art denoising, real time viewport light groups and much more.

Until Monday, you can get 25% off on the Blender Market during the Black Friday sales!

New Features:

Persistent Data: Perfect for fly-through and turn-table animations, your scene is only exported once per animation to save a lot of time.

Light Groups in the viewport: In Blender, every time you modify a lamp, the render process has to be restarted. In E-Cycles, you can tweak your lightning setup in real time with very high quality feedback. Your viewport rendering will continue to render samples while you modify your lightning. If you save your renders as multi-layer EXR, you can even modify the lightning of an existing animation without re-rendering it! Perfect to adapt to clients changing their mind.

Improved denoising: You now only need a few samples to get detailed previews. High samples renders will get very crisp textures compared to any alternatives.

Tutorial:

Fast and high quality AO and Clay rendering: Setup an AO or Clay render with a single click. It will render even faster and will smartly detect glossy and transparent surfaces.

E-Cycles 2021 available for pre-order during the sales! The first alpha of E-Cycles 2021 is about to come soon too. The first feature will gives unprecedented details conservation when using denoising in the viewport with continued improvement to the rendering speed:

E-Cycles also offers:

Very fast rendering for CUDA and OptiX: 2x faster rendering on average and out-of-the-box.

Easy of use: E-Cycles is 100% compatible with Cycles. All your files, assets and add-ons will work the second after you unpacked E-Cycles. You can use your current knowledge and work as you did with Blender, benefit from a huge tutorial library and knowledge base. When you want, you can start to learn the new features of E-Cycles to get the best out of it. A quick settings panel helps you getting started by grouping all the important settings in one place.

Fast UI interactions: In Blender, you have to jump between tabs and scroll a lot to find useful but hidden settings. Thanks to E-Cycles render profiles and the quick settings, you can now quickly optimize your scene with only a few clicks.

Fast viewport rendering: sharp details appear in a fraction of seconds for very fast workflow iterations.

State of the art denoising: requires only 1/4th to a 1/10th of the samples the Blender defaults alternatives need. Stacked with the base speed-up E-Cycles offers, you can get over 10x faster rendering while keeping the same image quality.

Great flexibility: You can switch between very high quality rendering and game engine speed thanks to new rendering techniques and with 2 clicks using the corresponding profiles. https://

Both stability and bleeding edge features: E-Cycles supports Blender LTS releases, stable releases and latest master. You can decide which balance of stability and features you want for each project.

Regular updates: E-Cycles got a lot of new features and improvements since it’s first release, you can check the monthly change log on the product page. New master builds are also uploaded very often.

Some example of E-Cycles:

Architecture: Petra Trebjesanin

Architecture: Petra Trebjesanin

Product Design: Render by Hyesung

Concept Art: Marco Iozzi using E-Cycles for Mac.

Concept Art: Marco Iozzi using E-Cycles for Mac.