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
Hey aren't you that speed spriter? I think I remember you from like 5 years ago! Great stuff!
Hey, that's me! Thank you for enjoying the Speed Spriting videos! I would do more, but it's a lot of unpaid work to do all the video editing + commentary, plus music, thumbnails, etc. Instead, I've been refocusing on building my pixel art business and making games, with infrequent check-ins on Youtube. Recently did a devlog video for the new version of my game. I'm really glad folks enjoyed the pixel art time-lapse videos though- Maybe they can return in some form someday.
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.
Thank you so much for this! Convert my banner to .apng works perfectly, finally be able to see my animated banner again after like what, 3 months!
Use this site to make conversion easy!
Gif to apng: https://ezgif.com/gif-to-apng
Tip: If for any reason your GIF gets corrupted or loses color during conversion to Apng, I recommend converting it to WebP first. So, converting from Gif to WebP, and then from WebP to gif again and then converting to apng file. I know it’s kinda confusing but that worked to me bc my gif. to apng looked weird and i solution it in that way.
Gif to Webp: https://ezgif.com/gif-to-webp
Webp to Gif: https://ezgif.com/webp-to-gif
I tried it, but it only works for banners, right? It’s not a solution for the GIFs you place in your product gallery (usually shown on the side). I just want to make sure the solution doesn’t apply to my case yet, and that I’m not missing something (my banner isn’t animated).
They work in the gallery (the screenshots part, right?) but only when u select them in big, not in the little preview, idk if that was possible in the past, but at least for me, it works so fine!
Yeah, side screenshots don't animate automatically anymore, unfortunately. You have to click on them. But this works for description, banner and background.
Until to this day the problem is still existing, uploading gif images into the description does not work.
But there is a workaround and you could ask the ChatGPT to help you with GitHub Repository Link method on how to use it if you a newbie into this kind of stuff.
Copy and paste the image address link from your GitHub into itch.io description SOLVED! so far this is the only temporary solution that works best.
This is the example of the result, copy and paste into your description like this will appeared.
Please don't declare the bug solved when it isn't. This is just a workaround. There's still no official solution to this problem, and no official word on why it's happening.
The current workarounds are:
* Use an external host (like Github)
* Convert the gif to apng
Unfortunately GitHub links work only for the description section. APNGs work on banners and background images too. The community hasn't found a solution for screenshots previews yet, as far as I know. We are making progress, though! :)
No one needs to ask ChatGPT anything. That workaround has been mentioned multiple times on this page.
That’s a good motivation and likely helpful.
It’s just… ChatGPT is stealing from these threads. People here shoukd read what’s here, not go to a chatbot.
For the areas of the site that allow markdown, animated gifs can ve hotlinked from anywhere that allows hotlinking with the following syntax.
But put in the full web address.
Nothing yet. I've also tried to direct message Leaf on Twitter and not heard anything back. Support hasn't responded in this thread, and I don't think it's been acknowledged anywhere else. Still unclear why this is happening or if it's intentional.
100% they are aware. There's multiple posts per week here, we've sent support tickets, etc. No idea why they don't reply, though.
"It's been 84 years..."