by Rowbyte·Motion Graphics
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Dot Pixels stands out in the aescripts library for a focused job: pixelating footage into circles and rings rather than square blocks, with parameters for roundness, ring thickness and shading. Version 2.7.5 landed in April 2025.
Dot Pixels is a native plugin from Rowbyte for After Effects and Premiere Pro that pixelates your image into circles and rings. Instead of the usual square blocks, each pixel block becomes a circle or ring, and an optional shading mode can simulate spherical and torus objects.
Control comes from a handful of parameters. Outer Roundness sets the outer roundness of each pixel block, and increasing it decreases the size of each circle. Inner Radius controls the radius of the inner circle in a ring, so raising it makes the ring thinner. Shading Type switches between spherical shading, generally applied to circles, and ring shading for shaded rings, while the Shading amount sets how much is applied, with none by default. A Fill Background checkbox lets you fill the background with a chosen BG Color, since the background is transparent by default.
In After Effects, Dot Pixels adds 32-bit floating point support. It's compatible with both host applications across many releases, and version 2.7.5 arrived on April 21, 2025. A demo video is also available.
Dot Pixels is best for after Effects and Premiere Pro users who want to pixelate an image into circles or rings, with optional shading to simulate spherical or torus objects.
Dot Pixels is completely free to download and use.
Dot Pixels supports a wide range of releases across both hosts. In After Effects it runs on 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and the CC line back through CC 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015.3, 2015, 2014, CC, and CS6. In Premiere Pro it covers 2020, CC 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015.3, 2015, 2014, CC, and CS6. Version 2.7.5, released April 21, 2025, fixed version mismatch errors, so it's worth checking the developer's page for the current installer and your specific release.
Dot Pixels includes 32-bit floating point support in After Effects. That precision applies to the After Effects version only; in Premiere Pro this floating point support is not listed. Beyond that, Dot Pixels is a native plugin for both applications, pixelating your image into circles and rings with optional shading to simulate spherical and torus objects. For details on how 32-bit handling behaves in your particular project, the developer's page is the best reference to confirm what applies to your setup.
Dot Pixels is listed here as free. We don't publish a specific price, and licensing terms can change, so check the developer's page for the current details before you download. The changelog also references floating license server compatibility across several past updates, which points to license-related infrastructure, so if you have questions about how licensing is handled, that page is the place to confirm what applies to you.
Dot Pixels turns an image into circles or rings, and the ring look is driven by its Inner Radius parameter. Increasing Inner Radius controls the radius of the inner circle in each ring and makes the ring thinner. The companion Outer Roundness parameter sets the outer roundness of each pixel block, and increasing it decreases the size of each circle. Together these two controls shape the pixelated result and its ring thickness, and ring shading can be applied on top to get shaded rings.
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