Devilishly Cute…
Here’s my first go at it. 3 point lighting and mental ray GI and Final Gathering. It rendered really quick and didn’t change much of the shading. I might have to check over the GI and Final Gather to make sure I did it right. As for right now, I’m pleased.
i would say the highlight on the eyes should be in the same spot on both eyes, and with less of a fall off… use anime pictures for reference here…
http://www.fandm.edu/Images/anime.jpg
it looks like your guy is cross-eyed or hypnotized there…
proportions, however, seem quite good, notice his head is kind of cute without a nose or a mouth… that’s pretty good so far.
yeah i would say all the anime drawings basically assume infinite distance for those lights that fake the eyeball highlight spot thing… so one way to do that is to parent a different light to each eye in the same relative position for each eye, and link them like that… or … put the one light way the hell out there in your scene… or just use a directional for that, not a spot light or anything else, then you can keep it at the origin.