Four card feature section with Sass, BEM and some CSS animation

Hello there. With this project I'd really like to work on SVG animations, like the blink of an eye, appearing light bulb rays, and so on. I think animation should happen when the site visitor hovers a particular card.

The problem, I don't even know where to start. It seems a very complicated process. How do you animate your SVG's? Do you use CSS, js or some particular libraries?