GIF Display Help!

Watchface Design Expression Help
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Most of the faces I design are relatively simple. Having said that, I don’t understand why they don’t display properly - this primarily applies to any design which incorporates a GIF. It simply doesn’t show unless you select it to look at in more detail. I don’t typically post anything here, and I might be using incorrect terminology.

Here is how the face looks when browsing

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Here is how the watch face is supposed to look

Is this a known issue, or am I doing something wrong. Any help would be sincerely appreciated

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Known issue that GIFs don’t display all the time in previews unfortunately. Sometimes you get lucky, but a lot of the time it stays static until you select to inspect further. Cool design though!

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Hi
Yes it’s a known problem with animations. - I use an image from the gif on top that shows on wake and immediately disappears. The chosen image is shown instead of the gif - running or not and
is better than nothing. I had the same problem as you but the guys here helped me with this solution.

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Hey, that’s a pretty cool looking Face, nice work done there, well done.
It’s just as @BIELITZ said above: sequences don’t show on Thumbnails unfortunately. Simple workaround is as he said: I’ve taken 1 Frame from my GIFs to act as the Thumbnail view, not visible at all on the Watch but shows the background image purely for the Thumbnails/Previews.

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