It is the first option that I am after, not being an artist I was initially looking for help on using Xara as a drawing tool, or suggestions on where I might get pre drawn figures. Secondly looking for recommendations on software that could animate the svg file. Currently what seems to be working best is Inkscape to draw the figures. I seem to be able to manipulate the drawing tools in Inkscape better than Xara but that could be because of practice. I will probably go back to Xara at some point and try again.