This was a background I made for Halloween 2014 after doing Kent's tutorial on the Spooky Tree. I added a basic character and some pumpkins with procedural dirt along with leaves dropped using the physics system. I believe the leaves were also one of JW's tutorials. :)
Very nice. Well done.
The Creating A Spooky Tree is another great tutorial on modeling and UV textures by Mr. Kent Trammell. It is still available in the archives.
https://cgcookie.com/archive/creating-spooky-tree/