Bring you website to life with SVG animations

What is a SVG?

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are an XML-based markup language for describing two-dimensional based vector graphics. Compared to classic bitmapped image formats such as JPEG or PNG, SVG-format vector images can be rendered at any size without loss of quality and can be easily localized by updating the text within them, without the need of a graphical editor to do so.

SVGs can be styled and animated with CSS (slides). Basically, any transformation or transition animation that can be applied to an HTML element can also be applied to an SVG element.

Demo

Getting Started

Paste the SVG directly in your HTML code

<!-- 
Tick SVG
-->
<svg class="tick-svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="367.805" height="367.805" viewBox="0 0 367.805 367.805">
  <g transform="translate(0 0)">
    <path class="container" data-name="Path 1" d="M183.9,0A183.9,183.9,0,1,1,0,183.9H0A183.379,183.379,0,0,1,182.856,0Q183.38,0,183.9,0Z" />
    <path class="tick" data-name="Path 2" d="M285.78,133.225,155.168,263.837l-73.143-72.62,29.78-29.257L155.168,204.8,256,103.968Z" />
  </g>
</svg>

<!-- 
Particles SVG
-->
<svg class="particles-svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="758" height="758" viewBox="0 0 758 758">
  <g transform="translate(195.501 195)">
    <g transform="translate(716.499 -482.5) rotate(90)">
      <rect data-name="particle 4" width="27" height="110" rx="13.5" transform="translate(388.961 274.552) rotate(-45)" class="particle" />
      <rect data-name="particle 3" width="27" height="110" rx="13.5" transform="translate(847.166 732.758) rotate(-45)" class="particle" />
      <rect data-name="particle 2" width="27" height="110" rx="13.5" transform="translate(408.052 810.539) rotate(-135)" class="particle" />
      <rect data-name="particle 1" width="27" height="110" rx="13.5" transform="translate(866.258 352.334) rotate(-135)" class="particle" />
      <rect data-name="particle 4" width="27" height="110" rx="13.5" transform="translate(653 154)" class="particle" />
      <rect data-name="particle 3" width="27" height="110" rx="13.5" transform="translate(653 802)" class="particle" />
      <rect data-name="particle 2" width="27" height="110" rx="13.5" transform="translate(287.5 546.5) rotate(-90)" class="particle" />
      <rect data-name="particle 1" width="27" height="110" rx="13.5" transform="translate(935.5 546.5) rotate(-90)" class="particle" />
    </g>
  </g>
</svg>

Animating the SVG

You can animate the SVGs using CSS selectors and adding the required properties. One important thing to keep in mind is to reset the transform origin (to the center in most cases) as the default is 0 0, which is the top left.

.svg-part-selector {
  transform-origin: center; /* or any other value */
}

First lets add the keyframe animations

@keyframes zoom {
  0%,
  5% {
    transform: scale(0);
  }
  20%,
  80% {
    transform: scale(1);
  }
  95%,
  100% {
    transform: scale(0);
  }
}

@keyframes spin-zoom {
  0%,
  20% {
    transform: scale(0) rotateZ(0deg);
  }
  40%,
  60% {
    transform: scale(1) rotateZ(360deg);
  }
  80%,
  100% {
    transform: scale(0) rotateZ(0deg);
  }
}

@keyframes burst {
  0%,
  20% {
    transform: scale(0);
    opacity: 0;
  }
  40% {
    opacity: 1;
  }
  60% {
    transform: scale(1);
    opacity: 0;
  }
  80%,
  100% {
    transform: scale(0);
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

Tick Animation & Styling

.tick-svg {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
}

.container {
  fill: #3bb54a;
  transform-origin: center;
  animation: zoom 2s ease-in-out 0s infinite forwards;
}

.tick {
  fill: #ffffff;
  transform-origin: center;
  animation: spin-zoom 2s ease 0s infinite forwards;
}

Particle Animation & Styling

.particles-svg {
  width: 180px;
  height: 180px;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: -1;
  animation: burst 2s ease 0s infinite forwards;
}

.particle {
  fill: #fe0;
}

Reference

CSS Tricks

1. A Guide to SVG Animations

MDN Web Docs

1. SVG

Youtube

1. Learn To Build An SVG Animation With CSS
2. Make Awesome SVG Animations with CSS

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Comments

[Temani Afif]

This looks like a lot of CSS for an SVG thing. You can rely on SVG animations otherwise doing the whole thing with CSS would take less code.
I also advise that you merge both SVG together to deal with only one element and avoid issues in case you want to change your element position.

[Tapajyoti Bose]

Yeah, I should have merged it into 1 element as it would make the animation better understandable (how to animate different parts of the same svg), I thought of the particle part later and forgot to merge it with the tick svg