And so what happens is - the integration of that actually involves visual effects, because we have to integrate our actors and our camera movement into the 2D world. But we are working through and moving through the environment in a 3-dimensional way, which is something we could do now that wasn’t able to be done in the ‘60s. And obviously, this is Emily Blunt, and Lin-Manuel and our three fantastic kids who are in this film. You too, John.” You’ll see here, we’re talking to hand-drawn animated characters that are voiced by Chris O’Dowd - and then the horse by Mark Addy. “Oh, Georgie, head up and feet beneath you. And we actually brought animators out of retirement to do it. It actually costs a lot more to do this way and, also, was much more time-consuming. And I really like the artistry behind it. I used myself as a barometer, the entire time I was working on this film - what would I want to see in this film? And as you see, it’s all hand-drawn 2D-animation. And it was very important for me to be able to include a live-action animation sequence in this film, especially because I feel it’s in the DNA of Mary Poppins. These flowers that are coming off the bowl become animated. And I’m the director of “Mary Poppins Returns.” “Gather round, everyone - spit spot.” So we’re here, in 1930s London, in the nursery of the Banks family.

Transcript ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Rob Marshall narrates a sequence from the film that mixes live action with animation.

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