Animation support is on the plan
Someone is working on importing/exporting animated gifs. I can't say when it will be released, but I'd rather wait for him to finish than to continue to code for the software.
- Why is the drawing not following the depth pattern anymore?
I want to see the demo of the gif import/export first before adding it into Shadowforge again. - Will the layers copy itself on to other layers when you implement the depth pattern again?
No. I've coded a list to handle the color, scale, rotate and alpha. - How will the animation frames work?
I can't say for sure, but what I can say is that you will be able to open up animated gifs and save them with a shader applied.