It's an Ugly thing!: An UglyDolls long-doc...

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*This is a documentary on UglyDolls, for the documentary on Unbreakable from the same film, check it out: right here.*

## Intro

### About the movie:

UglyDolls is a 2019 computer-animated (CGI) musical-comedy and adventure film, about an UglyDoll named Moxy, who attempts to go to the big world to be a child's toy. Similar to Toy Story, Monsters University, and in the animation like Trolls, it's a movie about being yourself, showing kindness, and respecting other's different.

### About long-docs:

Long-docs, fully called Long-documentaries, is a form of documentary that is long and detailed, and has lots of information on the subject. In this case, this UglyDolls long-documentary will have alot of information on UglyDolls.

### About this long-doc:

In this long-documentary, it will explain the behind the scenes work, information on the voice actor and actresses, it's reviews, what went wrong, and right, and a creator's opinion part. Mostly, it will talk about pre-2019 UglyDolls movie work, but it will also be on post-2019 UglyDolls movie work.

Let's start...

## 2011: The illumination side.

### Information:

In 2011, a company who goes by the name of illumination, who was known at the time for Hop and Despicable ME, got the rights to make an Uglydoll-related movie with the original creators, David Hovath and Sun-min Kim. The first notice of this information was said by Fandom, at the time known as wikia, a platform known for hosting wikis, and also announcing new stuff.

However, illumination haven't said anything about an UglyDolls film coming until 4 years later, it wasn't illumination wasn't working on it, now it was STX entertainment's turn.

### Signs of it being cancelled:

The illumination version of UglyDolls is very lost media, and is not-viewable to the public, however, it was cancelled for these following reasons:

1. At the time of making it, someone already thought of another film, that became Despicable ME 2, since they couldn't multi-task it at the time, it couldn't be done.
2. It didn't probably fit illumination's film criteria, causing the idea of a movie, at that time, impossible.
3. Their last film, Hop, didn't do well, so cancelling the UglyDolls movie could've been the only way to save the brand.

## 2015: STX bought the film.

In 2015, 4 years after illumination planned to make it, STX bought the film's original rights and announce that now they're working on UglyDolls with Reel FX, who Reel FX was, at the time, known for the positively received The Book of Life, reviving the concept saved UglyDolls from not becoming a film, that made David Hoveth and Sun-min Kim, the original creators of UglyDoll, ex-producers, this was pre-production, that means they were possibly working a little on the animation.

It was not until 2017, when Kelly Asbury signed on to direct the movie, this was when it went into production, that makes the story was getting made, the characters were being built, and the songs were in pre-production.

## Behind the scenes

UglyDolls was animated in Autodesk Maya, a software used for CG animation, the film took 2 years to make, from 2017-2019. Most of the song were preformed in a big, old-school-like building, and at an unknown recording studio. It's voice crew is as other in the way we first hear their voices;

Ice T, Pitbull, Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton, Wanda Sykes, Gabriel Igelsias, Emma Roberts, Wang Leehom (Leehom Wang in Chinese-form, Since Leehom is Chinese), Rob Riggle, Chali XCX, Lizzo, Bebe Rexha, Janelle Monae, and then finally, Nick Jonas.