Get Started with SVGator
You can get started with SVGator like this: First, create your SVG file in your favorite graphics application—you could use Sketch, or Illustrator, or even hand-code the SVG in your favorite code editor. Next, log into the SVGator site (create a account if you don’t already have one). Finally, click the “Import SVG” button to bring your graphic into the editor. Once your graphic’s in place you’re ready to start animating. The user interface will be familiar to anyone who’s ever used an animation application, which keeps the learning-curve of picking up SVGator shallow. In the center of the screen you’ll see your SVG graphic. On the left you’ll see the different elements of your design separated into a list. On the right you’ll see a contextual properties panel that changes depending on which element you have selected. Along the bottom of the UI is the timeline that separates elements in the graphic into different channels, and allows you to animate different parts of your graphic independently.Animating with SVGator
It’s incredibly simple to animate graphics in SVGator. Just select an element from the elements list, and add it to the timeline, then assign one or more animators to it; alternately with an element selected, add an animator and both the element and the animator will be added to the timeline. You can now add keyframes to the animators and set their properties.![step-01](https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/cdn-origin/uploads/2018/06/step-01.jpg)
![step-02](https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/cdn-origin/uploads/2018/06/step-02.jpg)
![step-03](https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/cdn-origin/uploads/2018/06/step-03.jpg)
SVGator’s Code
As well as these top tools, SVGator features a code manager panel, so you can see exactly what code is being generated by the app. SVGator exports clean, well-formatted code. So designers with no coding knowledge can use it to design animations, and then hand that code off to a developer to customize without any interpretation issues.Choosing SVGator
The team behind SVGator created it to help promote the use of animated SVG on the web. Accordingly, they’ve placed no restrictions on the number of projects you can create. Whatever you design and animate will be stored on your account, and you can return and edit your file at any time. If you’re looking to take your web graphics to the next level, then animated SVG is the way to go, and SVGator is one of the simplest tools you can use to create them. With new features on the roadmap, this is the perfect time to pick up this hot new tool. Create your SVGator account, and start animating vectors today. [-- This is a sponsored post on behalf of SVGator --]WDD Staff
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