Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been obsessed with rocks and crystals. I used to spend hours at rock shops, drawn to the beauty of gemstones, quartz, and glittering iron pyrite. I’d study each piece closely - mesmerized by the cracks, the colors, the way light refracted through their surfaces. There was always something elusive and rare about them - something magical.

That sense of wonder never left me.

I decided to explore how to bring that same curiosity into my 3D work. These are a few photorealistic crystal renders created in Cinema 4D and Redshift then animated each shot with AI - an experiment in texture, shape, refraction, dispersion, and color. I kept the lighting minimal and let the forms and subtle gradients do the talking.