Same issue.
Also, to your question, no. Your sprites don't appear animated here either.
None of my banners and screenshots animate at all, although the screenshots animate if you click on them.
Here's a test GIF that should be animated:
Edit: Clearly still does not fully work, above image is static as of 10/10/25
A mod in another topic said “No idea” in response to a question about it a couple hours ago :/
I have a partial solution:
Store your animated GIFs in a public GitHub repository and link the raw content URL in the HTML/Markdown with an <img> tag (HTML) or a ![]() (Markdown).
Here’s an example:
This works for GIFs in project page and devlog bodies, but it doesn’t work for banners or background images, since those have to be uploaded via the theme editor, and thus they rely on Itch.io to be animated and rendered correctly.
Cover images and banners are two different things- The cover image is the nearly-square image which is the "face" of your project when it's viewed as a store listing, while the banner image is the image shown at the top of your project page.
Cover images seem to work normally and when you hover the mouse over them they animate. Banners do not currently animate under any circumstances. Screenshots do not currently animate unless you click on them. Hope it can be fixed soon...
I did some screenshot testing and reported the results in the other gif thread:
Basically, the itch servers are delivering single-frame versions of animated gif screenshots, which is why they don't animate. As noted in the post, the animated version of my screenshot image is still on the itch servers and animates on the page correctly with a simple url change via dev tools (not a permanent fix). This indicates the issue is not related to gif file encoding before upload.
