Crystal Staff

3D Model

A magic crystal staff. I tried to create various color shifting and iridescent effects by having a few instances of the same objects stacked together, with each having its normals twisted differently and each reflecting different colors, and then the additive opacity mode worked well to blend the effect together.

• The top crystals change color as you rotate around them.
• The gems bellow each reflects colors dispersed a bit horizontally.
• The shaft reflects its colors hue shifted at different angles, so it looks like the colors shifts up or down as you rotate.
• The wraping band’s colors also shift as you rotate.
• The gem at the end of the band also reflect colors differently at each facet.
• The big pearl at the bottom is my favorite, a subtle iridescent effect with each reflecting instance’s normals rotated only a tiny bit.