Here's me playing on 3D MAX, this is when we were messing around on the colour effects were i draw out 3 random objects, then i went on this menu were there were sevral spheres were you could set up numeruces colour effects, once on that menu i selected an effect and then a colour and then dragged that colour effect on to a object which covered that object in that colour effect as you can see above.
I did three different colour effects to three different shapes.