Mary Poppins Returns

James S. Baker
5 min readSep 3, 2019

I’d like to write about the landmark year of 2016, when I worked on “MARY POPPINS RETURNS” and began to claw my way back into the animation career I’d loved for 30 years, after losing the use of my drawing arm in 2012, due to a STROKE.

Immediately after my STROKE, my focus was on medical recovery; learning to think, talk, walk, and deal with the after-shocks of my condition (many of which l still deal with today). Then there…

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