# How to Make a Frosted Glass 3D Icon - Materials & Shading That Look Good - Spline Academy (https://spline.design/academy/tutorials/how-to-make-a-frosted-glass-3d-icon)

> In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Glass material layer on Spline to create a frosted glass effect in a 3D icon.

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# How to Make a Frosted Glass 3D Icon

Lesson 10 of 12Spline 3DBeginner7 min

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Glass material layer on Spline to create a frosted glass effect in a 3D icon.

Check this scene in real-time: <https://my.spline.design/frostedglassicon-e42b97aa5d357f036b9e2bd510e45557/>

## What you’ll learn

1. [0:00Introduction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZH-t5zMbk&t=0s)
2. [0:25Creating the base color layer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZH-t5zMbk&t=25s)
3. [3:00Making the 1st glass layer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZH-t5zMbk&t=180s)
4. [4:122nd glass layer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZH-t5zMbk&t=252s)
5. [4:55Final adjustments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZH-t5zMbk&t=295s)
6. [5:40Exploring design alternatives](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZH-t5zMbk&t=340s)

## Related resources

- [Frosted Glass IconTemplate](https://app.spline.design/academy/tutorials/how-to-make-a-frosted-glass-3d-icon?redirect-duplicate-template-uuid=b8d8349c-f4ef-46e8-83f9-cf882c966ff4&is-2d-file=false)
- [Extruding 2D objects in 3DDocument](https://docs.spline.design/designing-in-3-d/extruding-2d-objects-in-3-d)
- [Glass LayerDocument](https://docs.spline.design/materials-shading/glass-layer)
- [Depth Layer / 3D GradientDocument](https://docs.spline.design/materials-shading/depth-layer-3d-gradient)

## Overview

- Spline 3D
- 7 min
- Beginner

## Up next

[Add a Smooth 3D Gradient Depth Effect7 minBeginner](https://spline.design/academy/collections/materials-shading-that-look-good/add-a-smooth-3d-gradient-depth-effect)[Continue](https://spline.design/academy/collections/materials-shading-that-look-good/add-a-smooth-3d-gradient-depth-effect)

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