Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’s Kara Vallow Talks About Animating Science

This past Sunday, Fox aired the premiere of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a 13-part miniseries meant to be a successor to Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos series. The show is hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson and produced by Seth McFarlane and Ann Druyan and seeks to recapture the spirit of scientific storytelling that Sagan brought to the masses with the original Cosmos.A big part of that storytelling is telling the stories of important figures from the history of science. Where those segments were done with live action reenactments in the original Cosmos, the new series uses animation instead.Kara Vallow is responsible for developing and producing those animated segments. She is a longtime collaborator with Seth McFarlane, working together with him on Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show. She talked to ComicBook.com about the creative process that went into these segments for Cosmos, and what’s it like to be following in Carl Sagan’s footsteps.