Need a little help

[Juice5942]

I'm fooling around with Maya a bit, and as part of a project I'm making a short film involing robots. The concept is unimportant for this very moment, but I'm curious on what a good way would be to get the effect of a glowing lense that would represent the glowing single eye of a robot.

I will try to post a capture of what I have so far if that helps, but I'm not sure if simply putting an area light or something to that affect in there is the best approach.

Any help is greatly appreciate.

[Blue2]

that sounds like something you do in after effects by adding a small lense flare to the eye... if not then maybe you can add a point light or a spot light within the eye so the lgiht shines outward, give the light desity so it can be seen not just as a bright dot but as rays of light.