Material Experiments - Adding Glowy Bits to Things

Glowing emission shader using the fresnel property as a color ramp cutoff. I dunno, Suzanne's looking pretty spooky here.

Now the emission shader is paired to the volumetric property. Add a glass shader to the surface, and now she's looking kinda like a night light.

I tried using the volumetric lighting setup before, paired with a quick hair particle system, hoping for a furball with a cool glowy light coming from the center. Turns out, calculating all that was hell for Cycles and I ended up with lots of fireflies.

So instead, I tried pairing the emission shader on a color ramp based at the roots of the fur. It turned out much, much cleaner, with a way faster render time, and looks super dope.

Here's the material node setup that I ended up with for the hair.