A lone rider on horseback crests a windswept desert ridge at dusk, storm light breaking across the sand

SC 01 · EXT. DESERT RIDGE · DUSK

See it before you shoot it.

Lasso turns a script into a shot list, storyboards, styled frames, and an animated pre-viz sequence. The Lasso Director's Assistant helps you break it down and render images and video. You direct.

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THE PIPELINE

One scene, five stages.

This is the scene from the top of the page moving through Lasso. Every stage is editable, and every generation is one shot, so a bad take never costs you the sequence.

  1. STEP 01

    Paste the script

    Drop in a scene or the whole draft. The Director's Assistant reads it the way a first AD would: beats, locations, coverage.

    EXT. DESERT RIDGE - DUSK

    Wind strips sand off the crest. A lone RIDER leans into it, duster snapping, and pulls the horse up at the lip of the ridge. Below, the flats run out to a storm.

    RIDER
    (to the horse, barely audible)
    Almost home.

  2. STEP 02

    Get the shot list

    Every scene broken into shots with framing and duration, ready to reorder, rewrite, or cut before a single credit is spent.

    SC 01 · COVERAGE3 SHOTS · 15s
    • SH 01WIDERider crests the ridge, storm building behindDONE
    • SH 02MCUWind in the duster, lasso coiled on the saddleDONE
    • SH 03TRACKINGFull gallop across the flats, dust trail glowingRENDERING

  3. STEP 03

    Board it

    Lasso sketches each shot as a storyboard panel, fast and cheap, so composition arguments happen on paper.

    Graphite storyboard sketch of a rider on horseback cresting a dune ridge
    SH 01 · BOARD

  4. STEP 04

    Style the frames

    Boards you like get rendered as full styled frames: lensing, light, and grade locked before the shoot.

    Styled frame of a weathered rider at dusk, lasso coiled on the saddle, amber rim light against storm clouds
    SH 02 · TK 02

  5. STEP 05

    Watch the sequence

    Each shot becomes a five-second clip on a timeline. Play the cut, find the dead spots, regenerate one shot instead of redoing the day.

    Motion-blurred take of a horse and rider at full gallop across desert flats at dusk
    SH 03 · TK 01 · 00:00:04:12

THE WORKSPACE

A dailies room, not a dashboard.

Frames get the light; chrome stays out of the way. Scrub the timeline, fix one shot, or hand a note to the assistant and let it drive the pipeline for you.

DAILIES · EVERY FRAME GENERATED WITH LASSO

An astronaut silhouetted against a vast circular window filled with an amber gas giant
INT. TRANSIT RING · NIGHT
A woman at a farmhouse kitchen window in low morning light, steam rising from a coffee cup
INT. FARMHOUSE KITCHEN · MORNING
A figure in a long coat crossing a rain-soaked cobblestone street under a single streetlamp
EXT. CANAL STREET · RAIN
A wooden fishing boat emerging from thick sea fog at dawn, lantern glowing at the bow
EXT. NORTH HARBOR · DAWN
A camera operator tracking a galloping horse and rider across desert flats at golden hour
PRE-VIZ CAM B · GOLDEN HOUR