About Rowbyte Dot Pixels

Rowbyte Dot Pixels is a Pixel Bender filter for After Effects that pixelates images and footage into circles and rings. The filter provides optional shading that simulates spherical objects for circles and torus objects for rings, enabling LED‑screen or porous‑surface visual styles. Size of each pixel block is controlled by a dimension factor, outer roundness adjusts circle size, and inner radius sets ring thickness. Background color can be chosen or left transparent. The plug‑in supports 32‑bit floating‑point processing and Multi‑Frame Rendering in After Effects, and it is also listed as compatible with Premiere Pro. Compatibility covers After Effects 2025 back to CC 2014 and Premiere Pro 2020 back to CS6. It is offered as a free download, though users should verify current licensing on the developer’s site.

Features

• Pixelates images and footage into circles and rings
• Optional shading that simulates spherical and torus objects, with spherical shading for circles and ring shading for rings
• Dimension factor sets the size of each pixel block; outer roundness adjusts circle size and inner radius sets ring thickness
• Background can be filled with a chosen color or left transparent by default
• 32bit floating point support in After Effects only
• Multi-Frame Rendering support in After Effects
• Compatible with both After Effects and Premiere Pro

Best for

Creating LED‑screen, porous surface, or abstract artistic effects in After Effects and Premiere Pro using circle‑and‑ring pixelation with optional shading.