LarkLab
Aether Pillars V2
Every pillar rises from its own summoning seal, and the column carries the seal's design up into the sky. Aurora curtains, rising jellyfish, meshing gears, lava cracks, a wandering black hole. Drag one into your scene and press play.
| 20 pillars + 20 seals | EEVEE & Cycles | Animated out of the box | 0 textures · 0 UVs | Royalty-free |
A spell effect and its magic circle, finished and matched
| 01 Pillar and seal always match Both materials run on one node group. Change a colour, the speed or any effect control once, and the column and its seal change together. | 02 Moves the moment you press play Time is wired to the frame for you. Jellyfish pulse, gears mesh, curtains ripple and runes turn with no keyframes to set up. | 03 Same look in EEVEE and Cycles Preview in EEVEE, render the final in Cycles. All 20 pillars render in 19 seconds at 2400 px in Cycles on an RTX GPU. |
Every seal is a magic circle on its own
Each pillar is a column (an open tube) standing on a seal (a flat disc). Hide the column and the seal works as a summoning circle, an AoE marker or a portal on the floor. Shown from straight above: Sacred Geometry, Abyssal Bloom, Clockwork and Prismatic.
20 pillars, no two alike
ARCANE ELEMENTAL COSMIC TECH Every preview is a 5-second real render.
01 · ARCANE
Ancient Arcane Seal
Rune rings turn in opposite directions above an octagram seal.
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02 · ARCANE
Sacred Geometry Mandala
A breathing lattice over a hexagram and Metatron's cube.
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03 · COSMIC
Aurora Veil
Northern-lights curtains ripple up from an aurora oval.
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04 · COSMIC
Celestial Invocation
Planets travel tilted orbits above a star map and a sun.
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05 · ELEMENTAL
Abyssal Bloom
Pulsing jellyfish rise above a giant jellyfish seal.
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06 · TECH
Holographic Spell Interface
Data rain and a scan plane over a HUD with a radar sweep.
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07 · ARCANE
Alchemist's Circle
Symbol nodes climb from a triangle of transmutation.
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08 · ARCANE
Fractal Invocation
Lattices pulse in turn above a turning pentaflake.
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09 · ARCANE
Inkbound Invocation
Brush strokes paint upward; an ink circle draws itself.
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10 · ELEMENTAL
Cryogenic Sigil
Frost spines grow over a six-armed snowflake.
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11 · ELEMENTAL
Infernal Sigil
Lava cracks glow through crust over a flaming seal.
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12 · ELEMENTAL
Tidal Invocation
Waves and bubbles rise from curling wave rings.
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13 · COSMIC
Void Invocation
A wandering black hole bends the rings around it.
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14 · ELEMENTAL
Verdant Ritual
Vines climb from roots, leaves and a central bloom.
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15 · COSMIC
Dimensional Gate Seal
An endless tunnel of twisting squares.
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16 · TECH
Resonance Seal
Equalizer bars and waveforms over a spectrum seal.
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17 · TECH
Clockwork Invocation
Gear bands turn above a meshing gear train.
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18 · ARCANE
Crimson Covenant
Blades rise to a heartbeat from an eight-blade star.
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19 · COSMIC
Prismatic Invocation
A rainbow helix; prisms split light into a spectrum.
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20 · ARCANE
Disassembled Grimoire
Pages float up from a diagram broken into pieces.
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| Make it yours One pillar, every factionChange Color A and Color B and the whole effect follows: column, seal and glow. Here the Sacred Geometry Mandala as gold, frost, venom and blood. Prismatic Invocation also has a Spectrum control that blends from your two colours to a full rainbow. |  |
From download to glowing in under a minute
| 1 Drag it in Add the .blend to your Asset Browser and drag a pillar into your scene. Each pillar is one collection: column + seal. Or append the _Column and _Base materials. | 2 Place & scale Scale it to a thin sky beam or a wide summoning circle. Seal Size sets the circle on its own, independent of the column. | 3 Press play & render It animates immediately. Render in EEVEE or Cycles, and use the showcase scene's Bloom setup for the full glow. |
Node trees you can actually read
Every pillar is laid out the same way, in the same frame order as Aether Pillars: Coordinates, the column pattern, Fade & Edge Glow, Column Color, the seal pattern, Ground Ring, Output. The seal and column math each sit in their own sub-group, so the main tree stays tidy. Learn one pillar and you know all twenty.
| Shared controls on every pillar
| Plus controls for each effect Curtain Height and Shimmer Speed. Pulse Rate, Rise Speed and Sway for the jellyfish. Gear Speed. Hole Size, Lensing and Debris. Flame Height, Dryness, Bar Height, Twist... Extra outputs Colour and intensity masks for the column and the seal, ready to drive particles, lights or your own shaders. |
In the download
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Compatibility & license
| Blender | 5.0 and newer (built and tested in 5.2) |
| Render engines | EEVEE and Cycles (same materials) |
| Add-on needed | None. Pure shader node groups in a .blend |
| Meshes | An open tube and a flat disc per pillar (included). No UVs or textures |
| Works with V1 | Self-contained, and uses the same control layout as Aether Pillars |
| License | Royalty-free. Use it in personal and commercial projects with no extra fees or credit required. |