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Kara Vallow: In 2014, I was hired during the development phase for Season 2 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, to develop the animation style, put together a team, and produce the animated sequences. Vallow is a prolific animation producer at one point, she ran three half-hours of Sunday night FOX programming: Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, building the studio that has produced over 700 episodes of the ever-popular trio of shows.Īs the new season of Cosmos readied for this evening’s debut, AWN had a chance to speak with Vallow about how she deftly produces animation that successfully conveys complex scientific ideas, how she’s handled the challenges of producing highly successful adult animated comedies, and how she feels about the success, or lack thereof, of efforts to increase gender diversity in the animation industry.ĭan Sarto: Tell us about your role as executive producer on the new season of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. In the new season, she has once again assembled a top team of artists to tackle the mysteries of science, producing more than 100 minutes of animation in support of the show’s narrative that consistently wows us about the limitless wonders of our universe. In 2014, Vallow joined the venerable, Peabody Award-winning science series, originally developed by co-writers and co-creators Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, and first broadcast on PBS in 1980 she developed and produced the show’s animated content, winning an Annie in 2015 for Best Animated Television Special. With the other, she is co-executive producer on the most successful science franchise in history, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, which returns tonight on National Geographic with the Season 3 premiere of its latest chapter, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. With one, she is a five-time Emmy-nominated executive producer on Seth MacFarlane’s and FOX’s long-running hit animated series, Family Guy, which she joined in Season 3.
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On a normal day, Kara Vallow simultaneously wears two important animation executive hats, each with equal aplomb.