Yea it happens to me too..

Yeah it looks like when I go to your page too.

I think it happens on any animated submission that doesn't have a thumbnail. x_x

this happens to gifs some times in the preview pic, also I might add you seem to be using the outdated and no longer supported light style sheet, the dark one is now standard.

Fine fine.

just thought I'd mention the style sheet thing, cause it may cause problems for some people, though if changing to the dark sheet does not fix it then no need to switch. I just think it's good to let people know to try that when issues happen.

It does look like that. Look at my front page and you'll see a lot of animated icons I made. It's the result of the way FA makes a still image out of *everything*. GIF images, depending on how they are saved, may have transparency data stored in there somewhere. This confuses the website's image converter and causes it to botch the colors.

It's bad coding in my professional opinion, but what can you do?

aaahahaha your avatar <3

Transparency and minimal framing is what it looks like is screwing things up. Transparent PNGs look terrible as well.

It's FurAffinity's auto-resizing shit. It sucks balls.

Fun Fact: You can edit your submission and change the original, the thumbnail.. but NOT the midsize image.

So if it looks shitty.. you're outta luck!

Yeah, I kept trying a few months ago.

Everyone's animation thumbnails look like that to me...

yes it does always for animations

same here

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Something with FA and animations. Happens to me too, on just about any animation; not just yours. :c

It seems to be only happening to that animation.

I'm not sure why I faved this. XD

It's just further proof that dA sucks. :D

Yep, that looks just like your submission

I think that it's basically taking the first frame of the animated gif and showing that as the preview image.

That piece looks like one of the frames near the end actually.

FA isn't smart, it doesn't know how to make thumbnails out of gifs.

All your other animations seem to display the midsize image properly, only this one seems to be affected by the glitch.

The comment above that it's from FA's auto-resize seems the most likely answer.

If I had to guess, it looks like it grabbed one frame near the end of the animation, where your arms are thrown to the sides, and grabbed only the changing frame of the animating green wind disappearing to blue background.

You might try changing the optimization/compression settings slightly and reuploading, to see if the auto-resize will grab a keyframe or something to use instead? Or include a keyframe at the end? (If that's an option? I'm no artist, and I haven't even tried to make an animated GIF in nearly a decade...) "Animation: Science" has a midsize image of the face after the explosion, so it's possible the routine is grabbing the final frame.

Yeah, I started thinking that as I was getting ready to post this, since the frame it grabbed looks like just a piece of the moving wind.

I don't think GIFs have keyframes.

I think it depends on how densely compacted it is. I'd assume they'd make use of keyframes just in case there was a corruption in the datastream at some point...

...Again, I don't really know enough about image processing to say for certain, though. It definitely does look like the changed areas from the wind disappearing, since it's the blue of the background, though.

There are a number of software packages that have trouble using the "stamping" method of animated GIFs. FA's thumbnail generator is one of them. I'd like to know what thumbnail generator FA is using.

I see it too, some weird looking flaw this is. I see it on most gif previews for who knows how long. xp

a yes we all Gif Animaters get to have this kind of sight.

It shows Mostly Pictures of any between pages of the Gif animtion.

the Transparent type of GIf:A takes the most cause of this wierd picturing.

If we post GIF:A witout using Transparency type. that won`t had this problem
(chances if it pictures the middle picture again)

So to avoid this happening, try animated it witout the color tranpararency.

same here but the animated gif works fine itself.