Okay, so far so good, I discovered how to use the frame number as input to randomize the tree lights over time . I “manned” the sleigh and added the payload. I used the graph editor a lot to finetune animation placement. and the robot has got some color now. For the stars I did not go for procedural texture, rather artistically manual placement 🙂 . The moon is a 4K texture I got from a free download site.
Last part to tweak is the trails of the boosters, I will make them way shorter as I feel the long trails don’t really add anything except a lot of noise. The text will get a last tweak as well. anyway, time to get some sleep. Cheers to you all!

