Blender Iridescent Shader Tutorial

This is a sparkly iridescent material I made in Blender recently and I'll walk you through how to recreate it step by step and explain workflow approaches and the underlying math along the way! It'll cover ray marching, iridescence, glitter, and more.

Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/krisp.bsky.social
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/azrareyes
Music: https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/rainbow-road

Free download on Gumroad: https://krispxyz.gumroad.com/l/sparkly

0:00 Intro
0:38 NPR branch
2:01 Ray marching + Refraction
14:15 Base colors + Iridescence
17:26 Layer weight + AO
18:17 Glitter
20:25 Compositing
21:01 NPR edge highlights
22:36 Closing thoughts