Animated Steam artwork maker

Drop in a GIF or video and get the pieces for a Workshop, Artwork or Featured Artwork showcase. Each piece is kept under Steam's 5 MB limit and patched so it stays animated. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Want more than a clip? →Add text, effects and a background that lines up in Profile Studio

Settings

Layout
Workshop Showcase: five pieces side by side that play as one banner. Each piece goes up as its own Workshop item. 800×450 canvas, cut into five 158×450 pieces.
Look
Quality
The defaults suit most clips: 18 fps, every piece under 5 MB, and the fix that keeps Steam from freezing GIFs. Change them under Advanced settings.
Advanced settings
Frame rate
Higher is smoother but makes bigger files. 18 works for most clips.
Lowers colours or frame rate until each piece fits Steam's upload limit.
Once it fits, spend any space left over on better colours, then a higher frame rate. Takes one more pass.
Each number is one piece's share of the width, separated by commas.
Width of the whole canvas before it's cut. Bigger comes out sharper.
Height of the whole canvas. With more than one row, the rows share it.
Rows of pieces. Workshop showcases can have up to 3 after Points Shop upgrades.
Pixels left out between pieces, where Steam puts its gaps.
Pixels left out before the first piece.
Patches each GIF so Steam doesn't turn it into a still image. Leave it on.
Pick a file above to start.

Preview

This is where your clip gets cut. The grey strips are the gaps Steam leaves between pieces, so anything there won't show.

Source canvasSource canvas 800×450 · 5 pieces
1 158×450 x=2
2 158×450 x=162
3 158×450 x=322
4 158×450 x=482
5 158×450 x=642

Getting the pieces onto Steam

  1. Workshop showcase: upload each piece as its own Workshop item, then add them to your Workshop Showcase in number order. Two or three rows need the row upgrades from the Points Shop.
  2. Artwork showcase: upload each piece as artwork, then pick them in order in your Artwork Showcase.
  3. A bigger source clip looks sharper, because Steam only ever scales pieces down.
  4. If Steam shows a still image, check that the Steam animation fix is on and try a lower frame rate.

The upload guide has every step, including the console line Workshop uploads need.

Other tools

All tools

Steam Profile StudioBeta

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Avatar Cropper

Crop any picture to the right avatar size for Steam, Discord, YouTube or Twitch, and check how it looks at every size.

Steam profile text

Fancy letters for your name, BBCode for your info box with a live preview, dot art from a picture, and symbols to copy.

Make animated Steam artwork for your showcase

The Animated Steam Artwork Maker turns a GIF or video into the pieces Steam needs for an Artwork, Featured Artwork or Workshop showcase. Each piece is cut to the right size and lined up, so the showcase looks like one animation on your profile.

It runs entirely in your browser, so your files are never uploaded anywhere. It keeps each piece under Steam’s upload limit and applies the fix that stops Steam showing animated artwork as a still image.

  1. Drop in a GIF, MP4 or WebM and pick the showcase type.
  2. Move and resize the crop so the part you want fills the showcase.
  3. Export, then upload each piece to Steam in order using the upload guide.

Steam artwork showcase sizesFix a frozen Steam GIFUpload guide

Questions

What size is Steam artwork?

It depends on the showcase. The Artwork Showcase uses a wide main piece and a narrow side strip, the Featured Artwork Showcase one wide piece, and the Workshop Showcase five pieces in a row. The maker sizes every piece for you.

Why is my Steam artwork GIF not animated?

Steam sometimes shows the first frame only. The maker applies the usual fix when exporting; the guide on frozen GIFs explains it and what to try if it still happens.

Can I make a long or seamless Steam artwork?

Yes. The pieces are cut from one image so they join up across the showcase, and in the Steam Profile Studio they can line up with your profile background too.

Is it free?

Yes, completely, with no watermark and no account needed.