DataLife Engine - Softnews Media Group

For After Effects CS4 and above.

Works for 1080p and 720p projects. (the animations are in 1500×1500)

No plug-ins required.

Easily change the colors of Santa’s skin, coat, hat, gloves, beard, pants, belt, boots, buckle, white parts and the shadow opacity and color in all animations together with custom controls. The colors of the magic particles and candy cane can also be changed.

All animations can be combined with each other.

Assets included: 3 backgrounds (day, night and night high resolution wide), magic particles left and right with placeholders, snow loop, texts with particles and some sound effects (“magic”, “fast move”, “Santa coming”, “Santa run away”).

Full control over the idle time. (e.g. control how long Santa stays with his hand pointing up or how long a text is presented in the “catch something” animation)

Add your content in the placeholders in “catch something” and “magic left/right” animations.

Video tutorials and example scenes included.

PDF Documentation included.

The font used in the preview is free. There is a download link in the documentation.


List of all character animations

appear running, appear from top, blink, catch something, create magic left/right, hand magic left/right, push something left/right, hello, look up/down, look left/right, point left with right hand, point right with left hand, point bottom left/right, point middle left/right, point up, point top left/right, point left/right three times, present left/right, scratch head left/right, scratch belly, think -> idea, thumbs up, run left/right, run forward

Tags: Santa, Christmas, Animation, DIY, Kit, After, Effects, Projects