Ralph Bakshi on KickStarter

Last Days of Coney Island

I'm backing Ralph Bakshi and his new animated movie.

It's an animated cop, mafia, horror movie set in the 1960s in Coney Island, with political overtones both realistic and outrageous. Those are the description taken directly off of his KickStarter page.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralphbakshi/last-days-of-coney-island-0

I grew up watching Bakshi's animated features "Wizards", Fire and Ice" and "Lord of the Rings.

I would love to see anything new that he is creating and here is a chance to do just that.

For some of you just reading this, this KickStarter campaign most likely will be over, but if you are getting this in time, PLEASE back his project. It will be over March 3rd. Give what little or great you can...it will be worth it.

EPISODE 7. NEW ANIMATION PROJECT

I'm back from a long hiatus. It's been a while since I've written in this blog, but I have some thoughts to put down after taking the long break.
I started this blog to write down what's on my mind concerning film making and anything related to film making. I have years of experience and just want to put down stuff that I know. I've tried my hands at almost everything with good to bad results and don't want to ever stop doing what my passion is. I'm a creative and being creative I find myself exploring all aspects of movie making from live action to cell animation. These are things that I can't keep out of my thoughts and thus I must play upon them and explore them. So...I'm about to move forward on another project with one of my oldest friends and that project is going to be a short animated series. We are going to do everything ourselves including self publish and promoting. The promotion being the hardest of it all being that you need to have connections and know how to get the word out there that you have something interesting to watch.

We are creating a scifi comedy cel animated webisode that we began writing this January 2013.  Not going into details just yet because we want to keep it on the lowdown until we are ready to reveal it, which of course is when we publish it. It will be tough since I am learning the software from scratch, but most of the pre-production work will be done in Photoshop and on paper. This is going to be fun! I will keep this blog updated and plug things in as we go along.

Here is a link to a cool independent project that was crowd sourced funded on KickStarter....
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/01/kickstarted-scifi-movie/?pid=2005&viewall=true
The actual movie will be at the bottom of the page. Be sure to watch it.

This one was done entirely by one person.
http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/17/the-democratization-of-filmmaking-riveting-sci-fi-short-film-rha-created-by-a-single-person/

Enjoy!