Glow Surface Tutorial

In Maya, you create a lot of things. Sometimes, an object you're working on may need to glow a little bit, but how do you do that?

1. Create a shape in maya.

2. Add a texture to it.
ex: lambert

3. Apply the desired color.

ORIGINAL SHAPE IN RENDER VIEW

4. In Attribute editor, go to special effects and change the "Glow Intensity" option.

SHAPE IN RENDER VIEW W/ GLOW

Glow Intensity will affect various shapes differently.