I was just goofing around one morning, trying to make a model of our house, and after a while I decided that our house would take too long to model, so I used the rough outline I’d already made to build a barn. My barn looked kind of lonely, just hanging out there in space, so over the next few days I added a silo, a windmill, a farmhouse, some fences and some grass, animated the camera to “fly” over the whole deal and, voila! I ended up with the animation below: