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Poser December 2021 For more than 60 years, the North American Aerospace Defense Command has tracked the skies over the United States and Canada. On one special night every year, they keep an eye on the sky, not for danger, but for Santa and his sleigh. The official NORAD Santa Tracker started in 1955 and follows Santa as he journeys around the globe delivering presents to all the good girls and boys. The program gives the current location of Santa during his North American deliveries using a figure created with Poser Software. To help children of all ages visualize Santa's progress, Poser Software creator Meshbox Designs designed NORAD Santa, based on Meshbox Designs Toon Santa for Poser, explained Lynn Fredricks, the founder of Proactive International, Meshbox Designs, and Mirye Software. "Oddly enough, a customer working at Microsoft introduced Toon Santa to NORAD, and then NORAD contacted us. A few years later, we can up with a variant version of Toon Santa, which gives him a more unique appearance just for NORAD. We call him 'NORAD Santa' for obvious reasons," Fredricks said.