Glowing Robot eye

#1

Hey. I’m modeling a robot and I’ve started texturing. I want to make his eye glow and look evil, sort of like the ones the Decepticons from Transformers have:
http://www.nfscars.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=351&pictureid=4455
How would I go about to make something like this in Maya 2012? Using simple glow effects on a lambert won’t get me what I want x( Thanks in advane for the help.

#2

theres not much glow in the samplepic you posted, its more about selfillumination and it looks like they painted in some unnatural reflections of it too to exagerate the effect

#3

Hmm, yeah. Maybe I should just go for post work in Photoshop instead D:

#4

or you can use small lights in front of the eyes to get the same effect

#5

I’m using mentalray with Final Gather turned on with default settings. There are no lights in the scene.

Surface Shader result:

Settings:

For this next one, assign a mia_material_x. Then, in the Attributes, go down to Advanced and find Additional Color; hit the little checkerboard box to bring up the Create Render Node dialog and choose mia_light_surface under the Mental Ray section (it’s about 1/4 down, the icon is yellow-ish with a blue arrow).

Here’s the result:

And the settings for the light_surface:

#6

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