Hi itch.io admins. I think I've encountered a bug in your GIF upload or display system.
I uploaded a .GIF image as a cover image for one of my stock media collections, one with a bunch of video FX elements and texture maps - the Autumn 2018 Bonus stock media asset pack.
The GIF looks really weirdly wrong in the still preview, when running Itch.IO on Google Chrome, on Windows 10, and possibly in other configurations as well. It looks like it's not using the first frame of the .gif image as the still, but instead blending all the frames together in an ugly jumble, so that the title of the asset pack that does not change over the play of the GIF, is the only part that is recognizable and the rest of it just looks like static.
This was not the case when I first uploaded it, it seems like something done to the Itch.IO platform in the past month screwed it up.
I tried modifying the GIF to remove the first frame and then reuploading, but it still looks wrong. Can anyone explain why this is happening?
You can see what I mean on my profile, the third item down is a messed-up GIF:
It looks ugly and messed up as a still but it does play back correctly when moused over. I have no idea what is causing this but it is detrimental to my profile as a whole, and gives a terrible first impression of the product in particular.
EDIT: Apparently the GIF was slightly off on the aspect ratio and that caused the issue somehow. By adjusting the aspect ratio of the gif I was able to reupload and make it look better.