Is there a way to add animated elements to a design?

Hi @Modpodge !
You can actually embed gif files and they’ll be animated.

But it is not supported in all browsers.
Chromium based browsers don’t animate the gif, whereas Firefox for example does (both in the canvas and in the preview mode).

You can read @diacritica 's explanations about it on this thread : Best way to create slides/presentations with Penpot? - #6 by astrojuanlu

Hope it helps !