No, he's a fictional character based on a 14th century german folktale by the name of wunderham. Normally every time the holidays come around one of your parents dress up like him and put subpeona's in bad children's stockings.
We should make a side by side video for this.
Babylon 5 was entirely CGI. 94-98
Genius
Also 1999 The Matrix. There was plenty of good CGI. And yes SD was dog shit, you didn't need to spend a lot on CGI for TV.