Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine. Since its release as Apache 2.0 (permissive open source), it’s also in use by other 3D tools, such as Poser and Rhino. Cycles can be used as part of Blender and as stand-alone, making it a perfect solution for massive rendering on clusters or at cloud providers. Since its release as Apache 2.0 (permissive open source), it’s also in use by other 3D tools, such as Poser and Rhino. Cycles was used in various animated shorts, delivering excellent quality. It soon gained popularity because of its robust feature set. Now it gets an official website also.
Here is the Cycles Demoreel 2015 available on their official site.