Cozy-spooky Halloween pumpkin village animation in Blender

GOAL: Make a cozy-spooky, cinematic animation of a Halloween pumpkin village at night, entirely from scratch, in Blender. MOTION: A crooked little old-world village around a cobbled square: timber-framed cottages with warm glowing windows and smoking chimneys, a stone church with a tall steeple and a bell, a crooked gate and fences, a pumpkin patch, gnarled bare trees, a scarecrow, lanterns, fallen leaves, hay bales, and jack-o’-lanterns everywhere. Over the animation: fog rolls in and the jack-o’-lanterns flicker to life one by one, a witch on a broomstick flies across the sky past the huge harvest moon, the church bell swings and a swarm of bats bursts out of the steeple, a spooky hay wagon rolls through the square on its own, and the whole village glows its brightest for the finale. Magical and fun-spooky, like a Halloween storybook. No text or logos. No time limit. Keep improving until you’d be proud to have it compared publicly.