thank you. Two things:
I think it might distract people due to the nature and placement of banners and the fact that steemit is still young. Perhaps if the identity was established we could play with more creative solutions.
Complicated animated details are not really favored when it comes to the size of the file. Website owners tend to be pretty strict with that. Detailed animations are also very time consuming indeed.
Yep, both points make a lot of sense. I didn't really mean animations, more like a face with an engaging expression or something, but yeah, clean and properly branded probably makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking about.