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Using the Blender Render, if you have no lamps, the objects are black. With Cycles Render, even without any lamps, there is a small amount of light.

Here is a render of the same yellow monkey without any lamps present using the two render engines:

Comparison of renders of the same scene using Blender Internal and Cycles

Where does this light come from? Can you turn it off?

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    – atomicbezierslinger
    Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 3:26

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In cycles the World emits light. You can turn this off by setting the world color to black, or setting the Strength to 0 in Properties > World:

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If you still want the background to appear as a color besides black, you can make the world emit light only for the camera by mixing two Background shaders based on the Is Camera Ray output of the Light Path node:

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Result:

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  • $\begingroup$ Or you can also set "film" to transparent in the render panel, and add a color in the compositor with "RGB" and "Alpha Over" nodes ;) $\endgroup$
    – Polosson
    Commented Dec 19, 2013 at 13:46
  • $\begingroup$ @Polosson You can, but I think this way is faster if you are not doing any compositing already. $\endgroup$
    – gandalf3
    Commented Dec 19, 2013 at 17:55

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