Last Days of Coney Island is a 2015 American adult animated short film written, produced, directed and animated by Ralph Bakshi. The story concerns a NYPD detective, the sex worker he alternately loves and arrests, and the seedy characters that haunt the streets of New York City's run-down amusement district. It is notable for being the last film that Bakshi directed and animated before he retired from animation. Plot Taking place in Brooklyn, New York during the 1960s, Shorty (voiced by Omar Jones) rants about how the display of the striptease dancer is disgusting and how it reminds him of his mother. He then tells the story of him spotting his mother, who is a fortune teller, having sex with a clown. Shorty then murders both of them, with their body parts flying everywhere, piquing the interest of the mafia, eventually becoming one of them. The film then transitions to the Stool Pidgeon Bar, a hangout for cops, where he sees his girl Molly (voiced by Tina Romanus), with her being unaware that Shorty is coming. Shorty then says it's all part of his true story and that she hangs out with a cop named Max (voiced by Robert Costanzo), who he despises. Production Development Ralph Bakshi had previously pitched the film to major studios such as Pixar and DreamWorks, but was unable to find anyone who wanted to take on the project. When technology began advancing to the point where Bakshi could begin the project on a lower budget, he decided to take on the project himself and produce it independently working with a small development crew in New Mexico. Bakshi is quoted as saying that the animation is "probably higher quality than anything I ever made, at a cost so low it's embarrassing. Everything I used to do in my old movies that required hundreds of people and huge salaries is now done in a box. It took 250 people to make Heavy Traffic, now I'm down to five. I kiss the computer every morning — f-----' unbelievable!" Production was announced in 2006, attracting much interest, but no official funding, and according to Bakshi, "I had about eight minutes of film and a completed script. I thought budget was a slam dunk. For a Bakshi comeback film, it seemed like a no-brainer. [...] I asked one guy [in Hollywood], 'Should I have a budget of $150 million and