Crystal Skin AI Video Effect

Starting at the hands, the person's whole figure crystallizes into faceted clear quartz. The crystal spreads up the arms, across the shoulders and over the face within four seconds. Every facet refracts rainbow light that scatters across the background. The final frame is a gleaming crystal sculpture of the person in the same pose, catching the light.

In our test runs on MiniMax H3, a woman with a platinum buzz cut in a white ribbed turtleneck against a black backdrop crystallized from the arms up, the faceted quartz covering her chest by second two and her face by second three, ending as a gleaming crystal bust scattering rainbow light around it. In a second run, a bald, bearded man in a burgundy satin turtleneck against a black backdrop raised his hands to his chest as they turned to faceted quartz at second one, the crystal swept over his chest by second two and his face by second three, and he ended as a gleaming crystal bust scattering rainbow light.

Works best on a clear photo with the hands visible and a defined pose, since the transformation starts there and the sculpture keeps the posture. Plain or dark backgrounds show the rainbow light better. The result is a crystal sculpture, so facial detail becomes faceted and stylized rather than photographic.

It runs on MiniMax H3 for five seconds by default, and H3 itself goes up to 15 seconds and 2K if you want more. Studio also lets you move the same prompt to another model before you generate, such as Seedance 2.0 or Wan 3.0, and the price on the Generate button updates with every change. Our samples were all made on MiniMax H3, so other models will read the prompt in their own way.

Good for fantasy, jewelry-style and fashion concepts, and striking end frames for a longer edit.

Change "faceted clear quartz" to "faceted amethyst" for a purple crystal, or change "within four seconds" to "within six seconds" for a slower spread.