ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

SVG animation

Okay, so do you know what a picture is? It's like a drawing of something like a house, a cat, or a tree. An SVG is also like a picture, but it's made out of shapes, like circles and squares, instead of pencils and colors.

Now, sometimes we want to make the picture move or change, just like in a movie. The way we do that with an SVG is by using something called animation. Animation means making things move or change over time.

For example, let's say we have an SVG of a sun with a smiley face. We can make the sun look like it's rising by slowly moving it up from the bottom of the screen to the top. Or we can make the smiley face spin around and around.

We can do this by telling the computer what we want to happen and when. We can also add things like colors, shadows, and gradients to make it look even cooler. But at the end of the day, it's all just a picture that comes to life with the magic of animation.