is it important to learn svg and canvas?

Answer 1

No it's not.
You can learn it if you want to and it might help you a little but it's not necessary.

Depends on what your goal is, learning svg will help you with better illustrations and other stuff. And you can learn canvas if you're trying to make web based game

Answer 2

If u r interested in web based Animation kind of stuffs ,then u have to learn svg and canvas.
Otherwise why??