Can this moving prism-like reflection be created in Blender?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8734jq (from 02:10)

In the animation, broken pieces of glass are slightly rotating and falling down reflecting prism-like lights. I thought maybe it was added later manually, but this is not a static image and the prism reflections also move with the glasses. It would have been a lot of work to add such reflections to an animation. I wonder how this kind of effect was created.

That actually looks like 3D animation. It would be made by simply modeling and animating 3D shards, then surrounding them with an actual scene (or an HDRI background) so there is something to reflect. Then, add some bloom effect in compositing.

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