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Let's start with the easy bit, animated sprites. Just create a GGUI sprite element with the subimage set to -1, and it should work (draw_sprite uses the current animation subimage of the object if you draw a sprite with subimage -1, and sprite elements are drawn with draw_sprite passing through all parameters as-is). Potentially you might need to give the menu object an animated sprite as well (by assigning sprite_index) but I think it'll work even without it.

Now for "certain items with a different color": It's a bit unclear what you mean by "items" here? Items in the inventory or GGUI elements?

The idea with (Scrollable) Arbitrary Text elements is that you have a text field that reads data from the currently highlighted menu item rather than being a preset text (they're "arbitrary" as opposed to the Description field which originally was the only per-element-changeable text, and hardcoded text strings - I added the arbitrary text fields because I realized sometimes you need more than one per-element text field).

So basically, the element itself has no text, just a reference to the Arbitrary Text Array for that menu. But the Arbitrary Text Element owns the formatting (font, color, alignment) so by default, it can't change depending on what's highlighted - you'll need to make a new type of element which accesses an array of both text and formatting information (studying how gguielt_ARBTEXT works internally and copying the behavior for a new gguielt_ARBTEXTWITHFORMATTING might help here - you'd use an array similar to menu_arbtxt but rather than just storing text, you'd store a tuple [text, font, color, halign, valign]).

But if you just want different fields to be different colors (e.g. HP is red, money is yellow) it's very simple, use ggui_element_text_settings to change formatting parameters (all further text elements are created using these settings until you change them again).