I'm kind of surprised that Telerik has not come out with a server-side animation control, like the existing AjaxControlToolkit's Animation Extender (but more functional and easier to implement). There are other alternatives, like RIAnimation (http://www.hushhushmedia.com/page/RIAnimation.aspx) but that is clearly no longer supported. This would be for those of us who want high quality jquery animations, but don't want to bother with javascript!