

With this little but smart deadline reminder, you can motivate your team to keep up with the deadlines, without being a nag. It shows very well that you can really use SVG animations for any kind of creative project. This cool project deadline animation by Jonathan Silva is scary and funny at the same time. See the Pen #2 – Project Deadline – SVG animation with CSS3 by Jonathan on CodePen. However, here, the animation is a native SVG effect added directly to the animateTransform SVG element within the HTML page. Just like the ‘Become a Traveler Today’ demo, these loaders also use the Sass preprocessor. These pure SVG loaders by Nikhil Krishnan are a beautiful example of how to create SVG animations suitable for real-world web projects. See the Pen SVG Loader Animation by Nikhil on CodePen. He also made use of the Sass preprocessor to create the fine-tuned keyframe animation that carefully moves the globe around the screen.

The author created the graphics with Adobe Illustrator and exported it with the SVG Export plugin. This awesome ‘Become a Traveler Today’ demo by Jose Aguinaga is currently the most popular SVG animation on CodePen, and this is not a coincidence, as a lot of work went into this artistic project.

In this article, we have collected 15 examples of SVG animations to inspire you to use them in your own web projects, too. Besides being used for static images, you can also create awesome animations with SVG. And, they can be edited with CSS just like they were regular HTML elements. Then, browsers can load them faster, using fewer resources. First and foremost, SVGs are scalable therefore can adapt to any screen size without any quality loss. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) has a number of advantages compared to other image formats used on the web.
