Intro
Last Days of Coney Island was a project written by and being produced, directed and animated by filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, about a NYPD detective, the prostitute he alternately loves and arrests, and the seedy characters that haunt the streets of New York City’s run-down amusement district. The project was first announced on Bakshi’s official website.[1] Since being announced the film has gotten a lot of interest, but no official funding. Attempts were made to fund the film entirely independently, but have since fizzled. Now the focus of Bakshi Productions has shifted to drumming up interest in Bakshi’s currently available catalog of films to hopefully induce FOX’s animation division, or a well established independent animation company to fund the remainder of the production.[2]
Production
Much of the production was aided with the use of Toon Boom Studio, computer software designed to assemble 2D animation. Ralph Bakshi is quoted as saying “Eddie[3] began some coloring and refining of artwork in Photoshop then gradually moved over to doing this in Toon Boom Studio. The crossover was relatively painless. The programs worked well together. [...] I set up the picture in a traditional manner then Eddie uses Toon Boom Studio to do everything else. My animator Doug Compton also uses Toon Boom Studio to assemble and send pencil tests and animatics. Toon Boom Studio essentially becomes the studio. [...] I feel Toon Boom Studio has freed all cartoonists to make any film they want to make at an affordable price. This is more important in my opinion than Walt Disney being born.”[4]
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