About Dot Pixels

Dot Pixels is a Rowbyte native plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro that transforms footage into circular or ring‑shaped pixel blocks. Instead of traditional square pixels, each block becomes a circle or a ring, and a shading mode can simulate spherical or torus objects. Parameters include Outer Roundness (adjusts circle size), Inner Radius (controls ring thickness), Shading Type (spherical or ring) and Shading Amount, plus a Fill Background option that lets you set a background colour when needed. In After Effects the plugin supports 32‑bit floating point processing. Version 2.7.5 was released on April 21, 2025 and is compatible with multiple releases of both host applications.

Features

• Pixelates an image into circles and rings
• Shading option to simulate spherical and torus objects
• Outer Roundness parameter sets each block’s outer roundness; increasing it decreases each circle’s size
• Inner Radius controls the inner circle radius in a ring; increasing it makes the ring thinner
• Shading Type (spherical or ring) with an adjustable shading amount, off by default
• Fill Background checkbox with a BG Color option; background is transparent by default
• 32-bit floating point support (After Effects only)

Best for

After Effects and Premiere Pro users who need to pixelate footage into circles or rings, with control over roundness, ring thickness, and optional shading.