How do I get a nice looking render like yours?
I don't think you are going to like this answer, but I hand it off to @theluthier and it comes back looking beautiful.
It works 100% of the time. haha.
You can learn about lighting and rendering an animated shot in this course.
https://cgcookie.com/course/finishing-rendering-a-blender-animation
This is all about Cycles though because Eevee wasn't invented yet.
But for the animation course you DON'T need to render anything. In fact I will encourage you not to waste your time.
You can just render the viewport and spit it out in a few seconds rather than hours.
Hope that helps, Ahmad.
Thanks. It wouldn't be for the course per se. Just when I actually animated something decent, to make a nice render of it, to show off to family and friends. Thanks Wayne.
Different course, but I found this lesson really useful to cover a lot of aspects of lighting, rendering, compositing etc and have been re-using the techniques learned in it for rendering all sorts of things https://cgcookie.com/lesson/rendering-presentation