Moxy and Mandy: the long documentary about Unbreakable.

**This is section wised, all created by Abigblueworld and reserach done by said user.**

## who’s Janelle Monáe?

Janelle monae had many songs before, like tightrope and what is love, but her most popular song on the Uglydolls soundtrack, stands out from alot of her songs, named, unbreakable.

## first glance on unbreakable.

Sung by Janelle monae and Kelly clarkson, unbreakable is a song from Uglydolls, the film people hated, but people seem to acclaim the song, as really, really good.

Many haters even said that unbreakable is the only good song, but how did it come to be, and how does the best part stand out? Well, this is, Moxy and Mandy... The doc about unbreakable...

## Who’s Moxy (Uglydolls?)

Moxy in the film who’s voiced by Kelly clarkson, is a pink, semi-anthropomorphic (not furry bait) plushie who dances and sings only a few parts out of her lips, verse 2, pre chords 2, chords 2, the bridge and the ending. Unlike Janelle, or Mandy, a humanoid perfect doll singing the intro, chords 1 and 2, pre chords 1 and 2, just the whole song.

More about Moxy is that she is a pink doll who sings, draws, and reports news. Her body shape is very odd, with a bunch of hair on top of her head and two curls on left and right side of her body. She is cloth covered, meaning she has loads of cloth on her body. She has three eye lashes on both eyes, and big black eyes with the black eye color. Her mouth has 7 teeth (3 top teeth, 4 bottom teeth) and pink lips. When she talks, the cloth moves with her lower lip and her pink skin gets pulled on with the cloth, that means she’s a rigged model.

She has 4 fingers on each hand and no toes, she has a big tummy that bounces and sways a little when walking or whooshing her body. Her voice actor is Kelly clarkson, who was 36 at recording time. Moxy’s singing voice has a soprano voice type and a above average singing vibrato, meaning she can go fast with her vibrato and when she does, her mouth shakes at the speed of the vibrato most of the time.

## Behind the song

The song had many issues when being made, many version of the song’s lyrics were trashed and removed off the lyric board. Soon, after 1 day or more, they finally got the right lyrics to the song, and putted it together along with the animation in around 5 months. The animation of the film was done in Autodesk maya.

Due to there voice talents (janelle is metro soprano  and Kelly is soprano.) and vibrato, emotion, chops, breathy vocal moments from Kelly, and unique voice cracks from Kelly. The unique song became to be a success from the film! The instrumental is both live actionably done and using music softwarely done. The autotune may be at a 44% range, although some doesn’t come though like breathing noises or vibrato.

## Detailed info on the bridge

Now, what’s the best part like? The bridge? Well, here:

Unbreakable’s bridge consists of Uglydoll Moxy, a pink, felt covered plush doll who has 3 teeth and a missing tooth on her upper lip and 4 teeth on her lower lip. Singing the word you, with no visible appear until a second later, we she her looking at Mandy in a mirror and standing on a mirror shining the color pink.

Then, started singing the word define, first part of the word, that is de, is sung. Moxy’s teeth show while still looking at Mandy with a vibrato speed of 9-10 cycles per second, ending with a voice crack. Then, the second half of the word, fine, got sung with a strong F putting force on her upper lip and teeth, mouth open and tongue down , looking at other mirrors with Mandy on it.

We see Moxy on her back looking around with no visible lip movements, although her lips are moving. With Mandy watching her in a happy mood. Then, a reel of Mandy shows, now Moxy is in the mirrors! Mandy is a perfect doll who’s African American and has pink and gold hair with glasses. Singing the line, oh, while putting her hands on her heart and eyes closed, Mandy’s rig is different from Moxy’s, I will explain Moxy’s rig later, but only Mandy right now. Mandy has a humanoid rig, with her felt being a texture instead of a particle feature and child node. Mandy has a normal jaw that pulls her muscles and skin like a human, and eyes that are brown and some sort of texture. Back to Mandy in the scene, Mandy then puts her right hand up and sings, hey, then switches to a scene with Moxy’s eyes squinted.

Moxy then lifts her left hand up, getting ready to whoosh it, in a standby position. Then, her body whoosh down, pointing at Mandy with her left hand fully out, all 4 of her little pink fingers, palm out, right hand swinging, eyes wide and stare, lips all folded into a circle shaped with the word you out of her mouth. Ok, now it’s time for Moxy’s rig, Moxy has a unique and advanced rig from Mandy, Moxy uses a plugin called zipperlip, a plugin for auto rigging lips and animating them separately. Moxy’s felt is a particle, let me put up blender for a second. In Blender, there is a particle system called hair, in maya, the software for the rig and animation, there’s a particle system called cloth. Moxy uses that system for her randomly generated felt. That pulls when her pink lips move around, Moxy doesn’t really have a jaw, but does have lips. Her eyes are 2D animated as a texture, she is pink and has a psychological hair simulation on her hair and curls.

Then, a breath comes out of her mouth, putting her mouth wide open and her upper head clock-wisely up, with full force on the rig. Teeth are visible in this part. Then, she sings the word and with her right hand out, left hand on her heart, eyes closed and mouth wide open, like in a singing position. New reel! Now, Moxy is father away, singing the words no one then turned to her side, else, with a pitch changing voice, like, in a, na, na na, na naaaaaaaaa, tone with her mouth moving in the same way as the pitch. Last reel!

Moxy’s body starts shaking in the speed of her vibrato, with her curls bouncing around and her right one snapping out. This might be because she is singing as strong as she can from her pink, short self. Ending with a calming s noise.

## Time on animation

The scene probably took 2 months to animate, as the two dolls move their lips smoothly every word, especially Moxy, who again, is the felt covered plushie, when she takes a breath, her lips move also very fast, where to the point her lower lip and felt is a blur of pink for a second. Mandy doesn’t talk as fast as Moxy, because Moxy is very hyper, visible as how excited she gets at the bridge.

## How is the song unique?

Janelle monae is a metro soprano singing with Kelly clarkson who is a soprano, that is unique for what it is and it’s rare for that to happen in music.

Unbreakable is definitely not like the mainstream 4-8 bars chord progression song that always looped itself. Unbreakable has a chord progression every new verse that’s put together well, chord progression #1 happens in the intro, verse 1 and verse 2, chord progression #2 happens in pre choruses, chord progression #3 happens in the choruses and Outro, and the most unique of all, chord progression #4 happens in the bridge, 4 different chord progressions! And they all happen differently!

Unbreakable also ain’t the ordinary girl/girl duet, or boy/girl duet, or even duet! Here is the order on how Janelle Monáe and Kelly Clarkson sing, by their first names:

Janelle, Janelle, Janelle, Kelly, Janelle, both, Janelle, Kelly both, janelle, Kelly, both, Kelly, Janelle, kelly, Janelle, both.

Janelle sung 10 times, Kelly sung 9 times, Kelly sang less. Sololy, Kelly sang 5 times and Janelle sang with a whopping 8 times! Kelly sang most of bridge, and she only sang 3 times without the bridge! That is incredible... the modern day music makes the girl in a boy/girl duet sing only at the chords, or in a rapping song, the bridge.

## The looks don’t effect there singing...

No matter the dolls skin/felt color, they can sing really good out of them. Moxy is a pink, felt covered doll, who in this song sings extremely hard. Her voice uses voice cracks, breaths, vibrato, and slides to make the voice work, along with her own self squishing and squashing at one part of the bridge, that is the end.

## Writers opinion on unbreakable cover

People are loving Kenzie’s version way more then the original, like, how is it better? How? How is a version that’s emotionless and haves no talents and full of autotune but decent production, better then a version with realistic sounds like breathing and voice cracks for emotion, vibrato-filled beautifully done song with stellar production that had many versions scraped. Although both have autotune in there versions, How?

Well, I think I know the reason, they hate the movie...

This is bad, hundreds of thousands of people love the original, some people don’t like the video’s song yet love it too. And you’re calling Kenzie’s version of the song better? Well, hating the movie is the wrong reason to only say it’s better, you must not like the song, in order to love it more.

Here’s why I love the original more

* **Emotion is in the original version: the vibrato of both janelle and Kelly’s vocals and vocal cracks add emotion to the song, while Kenzie’s version has autotune all over and little to no emotion**
* **Sounds realistic or has a live action feel: the film it’s in is animated, and hearing a song with breathing and voice cracks are extremely realistic sounding and impressive to hear, while Kenzie’s version has only breathing, there’s not even a voice crackNot even at the bridge.**
* **The bridge: it’s fricking beautiful in the original version, Kelly clarkson sang it right and crushed the bridge! Kenzie, did nothing, just autotune, no breaths, or voice cracks or chops, just, autotune.**
* **The production: the original has a live action sounding background with minor autotune, while Kenzie’s version has just a piano, weird earwormy noises (that are very annoying) and a drum beat and a voice flooded with autotune.**

I can respect opinions on the song...

## Detailed info on Uglydolls

Now, about Uglydolls....

**Uglydolls is a 2019 Maya computer animated musical adventure family and kids comedy fantasy film about a pink, voiced by Kelly Clarkson penguin/monster plush stuffed animal named Moxy, who has. A larnex vibrato and a soprano type voice range with four hands and 200,000+ pieces of felt who lives in a world “village” called uglyville (that’s cross between Uglydolls and village.) where oddly shaped animals called Uglydolls (there called that because they are ugly looking in the 2001 version, button eyes and random shapes.)**

**The film was animated in autodesk maya by reel fx and uses a auto lip rigger called zipperlip plugin only for the riggers at reel fx.**

**The characters all have over 100,000 pieces for randomly generated felt that moves when the rig gets a signal in the control point and then, with a certain piece of code, pushes the felt down with the rigged lips and cheekbones, skin and jaw.**

**Oh, haha, here’s something alternate ending (why is it called that? And how is it called that! Hahahaha!) a hater of the film said:**

**“A character starts to open their mouth, and it's almost like every single hair on their fuzzy felt faces has been given its own different control point, and the way that their skin stretches and moves out of the way of their widening lips is almost hyper-real” -alternate ending (still, how is it called that?)**

**What he said is that when a character (let me give Moxy for a good example, she’s my favorite.) opens their mouth, every single hair near the lip point range to belly point range to nose range (what I added) on there fuzzy felt faces has given it’s own different control point, as stated before;**

**“The characters all have over 100,000 pieces for randomly generated felt that moves when the rig gets a signal in the control point and then, with a certain piece of code, pushes the felt down with the rigged lips and cheekbones, skin and jaw.” - me (what’s with me making quotes, ahhahahaha)**

**And with the zipperlip plugin, it made the control points happen here, haha, cool...**

**Each character has 2D eyes that are either textures animated in a different software or a normal model (most likely a texture) that show there expression by moving around or getting big or small, by, either 2D software or a rig.**

**The songs were performed at a building or school, with each song having a auto tune of 10% autotune to 68% autotune. All songs are recorded there.**

**The expose part is that, even if the film took 8 years to make, the animation took less then 9 months, the budget is $5 million because they advertised it with the 40 million other dollars. Moxy is the hardest character to animate because of her teeth and psychics on the hair pieces, along with using the zipperlip plugin as mentioned before. So, is there movie that bad? Actually, with all the new software, and the creepy untextured designs before the final project, not really... it’s just because Lou makes it bad, he is the “bad” guy, so, this might be the reason you hate Uglydolls.**

## Ending

thanks for reading about this, it took a while of reserach on the film to get this in the hands of me, thanks!

other things:

Behind the scenes