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Codename: Kids Next Door - Operation: M.O.T.I.O.N.-P.I.C.T.U.R.E. is an American animated action-adventure comedy film based on the Cartoon Network animated television series Codename: Kids Next Door. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Cartoon Network Features and Curious Pictures for Warner Bros. Pictures, it was written and directed by series creator Tom Warburton and series writer Mo Willems. It stars the regular television cast (Ben Diskin, Lauren Tom, Dee Bradley Baker, Cree Summer, Jennifer Hale and Rachel McFarlane) reprising their roles from the original series, in addition to a multi-talented celebrity voice cast consisting of Freddie Highmore, Saoirse Ronan, Salma Hayek, Eddie Izzard and Kelsey Grammer.

The movie was a critical and commercial success, with many critics highlighting the animation, visual style, humour, voice acting and solid storyline. It successfully made nearly $500 million worldwide against the $60 million budget.

Development
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation had already begun the process of starting development of movies with budgets of around $100 million. The intellectual property for these films was meant to be supplied by Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera (Warner Bros. Animation's in-name only division), Cartoon Network and Turner Entertainment (also both Time-Warner divisions) among others and included Huckleberry Hound, Tom and Jerry, Hong Kong Phooey,The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Animaniacs, Mucha Lucha, Xiaolin Showdown, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Samurai Jack, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and, of course, Codename: Kids Next Door. Cartoon Network had been approaching the original crew from the television series to make a high-profile, animated theatrical feature-length film adaptation and had long wanted to partner with Warner Bros. Pictures to release a KND film given the network's extraordinary legacy in the world of animation, including some of the most enduring characters on cable television history.

Creator Tom Warburton agreed to make a feature film version of the show with the promise it would be the first of a planned trilogy. During development stages of the film, he and his co-director and co-writer Mo Willems intended to revisit some of the greatest films of the time, with Scarface and The Dark Knight having the core inspirations for the film.

Casting
The regular series main cast members were hired to reprise their roles from the series. It feature the talents of Ben Diskin as Numbuhs 1 and 2, Lauren Tom as Numbuh 3, Dee Bradley Baker as Numbuh 4, Cree Summer as Numbuh 5 and Cree Lincoln, Jennifer Hale as Numbuh 86 and Rachel McFarlane as Numbuh 362. It also boosted from the more well-known celebrity cast consisting of Freddie Highmore, Saoirse Ronan, Salma Hayek, Eddie Izzard and Kelsey Grammer. Grammer would voice the main adult antagonist of the film which was a tyrannical CIA agent while Highmore and Ronan would voice the children which the KND organization would help in their epic battle against the film's villains.

Animation
The feature animation was handled by Rough Draft Studios in Glendale, California and Seoul, South Korea. The crew used the same processes from the original television series in the making of the film, most notably the 'skroutlines', which was a seamless blend of a more traditional screenplay with a more simple outline which resembled strong short stories and gave the storyboard artists such as Maurice Fontenot, Abigail Nesbitt and Guy Moore all the creative and aesthetic freedom neccessary. Warburton and Willems themselves provided the film's animatics.

Famed comic book artists Tracy Yardley, Dev Madan and Ben Bates, and animation veterans Art Mawhinney, Aluir Amancio and Airon Barreto also provided the film's storyboards. Michel Gagne helped on the character designs and special effects work on the film. Another animation veteran Dan Haskett also worked with Tom Warburton on the character designs of the film.

The bulk of the animation work was done on Wacom Cintiq tablets, which allowed drawings to be done directly on screen to facilitate production using programs Toonz, Digicel Flipbook and Toon Boom Studio. Pencilled key animation sequences would be digitally inked-and-painted, enhanced and composited into backgrounds using Toon Boom Harmony. Additional pre-production work was done at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California where the series' pilot episode was produced. Animation was done at Rough Draft's facilities on both Glendale and Seoul, with clean-up work done at the main Glendale studio. The final animation was also provided by Wang Film Productions in Taiwan and Thailand, Denmark's A.Film, James Baxter Animation from Pasadena, California, Mercury Filmworks from Canada, Sunwoo Entertainment from both Seoul and Los Angeles, July Films in Los Angeles and Neomis Animation in Paris, France. Computer animation was produced by Curious Pictures themselves in both New York and Los Angeles using Autodesk Maya, Weta Digital's Massive, Pixar Animation Studios' Renderman and Sony Pictures Imageworks' Arnold.

Sound and music
Brian Tyler composed the soundtrack for the film with Hans Zimmer and Lorne Baffe serving as the soundtrack producers. In addition to using the original series' music work from Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker on the film, he also composed themes for each KND operative. Numbuh 1's action score was the major focus and he also composed themes for Numbuh's 2, 3, 4, 5, 86 and 362, and Cree Lincoln. The music score was recorded at Warner Bros. soundstages in Burbank and mixed at Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood and Remotre Control Productions in Santa Monica.

The sound design work was done at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California and Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California.

Marketing
McDonald's released Happy Meal toys to promote the film. IDW published an official comic book adaptation of the film written by Tom Warburton and Mo Willems and penciled by Ben Bates. Watertower Music and Cartoon Network Records released the film's soundtrack. A platformer video game based on the film by Wayforward Technologies was released on PS4, Wii U, Xbox One, PSVita, Nintendo 3DS, Macintosh, Windows and mobile devices to coincide with the film's theatrical release, although the story was not based on the film.