Okay, so this doesn't look like much, but I thought it was kind of cool. I spent about half an hour this morning farting around with Maya and the various toon shader properties, and eventually this emerged. While it just looks like a ring of eyelashes arranged in an oblong shape, it's actually a toon outline applied to a sphere with tubes turned on, a painted color map, and an animated line modifier, which causes the red and the bulge.
