My collaborator and I create animation art with SVG (he is the animator, and I'm the composer/video editor, though we work together on the overall concept). So

My collaborator and I create animation art with SVG (he is the animator, and I'm the composer/video editor, though we work together on the overall concept). Some samples of our work here: https://vimeo.com/user1776782 https://vimeo.com/user1776782 Thing is, he doesn't use the animation facilities of SVG, because he can't get it to do the extremely complex things he wants to do with it (honestly, his XML/XSLT/SVG chops are not really in question here). Instead, he has a (gigantic) system that renders individual frames using XSLT, and then stitches it together with ffmpeg. His SVG files are already constantly pushing up against the abilities of tools like Batik, and for XSLT, there's really only one fully compliant tool in town (Saxon). I find it kind of amazing that there aren't better tools out there for SVG -- and frankly, for XML. The fast tools (imagemagick, rsvg, libxslt) aren't compliant, and the compliant ones aren't fast (they're all in Java and very resource intensive). Despite the fact that all of this uses open standards, it can sometimes feel as if we're working in the next Flash.