An update for anyone interested. I finally did get this effect to work with animations on export.
All you have to do is:
* Open sprite editor of the object you are using effect on
* Set export image format to JPG and apply to all animations (this will disable sprite-sheeting)
However if you are using semi-transparency in your animations you'll have to find your exported project folder, replace JPG images with PNG and edit "data.js" to look for ".png" instead of ".jpg" on said images.
Best of luck!