How to create my own plot type as the background for animation

I would like to use plotly in R to create an animation. I followed the tutorial and knew how to create an animation: https://plot.ly/r/animations/. I would like to use the attached image as the background. The attached image is created by the library(kohonen) to create a self-organizing map. Is there a way I can do this? Thanks.
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