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Vogons are roughly human-sized, although much bulkier, with green or grey skin. Their noses are above their eyebrows, which are either ginger (in the television series) or white (in the film). The film's commentary states that the idea behind the high flat noses was that they evolved both the noses and the severe bureaucracy from being repeatedly whacked by the paddle creatures under the sand on Vogsphere whenever they had an independent thought (in the film, the Vogon bureaucracy is centred on Vogsphere). In the radio series it is said that "Their highly domed nose rises above their small piggy forehead".
 
[[Garth Jennings]] deliberately based histhe conceptionvisual portrayal of the Vogons in the 2005 film on the work of [[cartoonist]] [[James Gillray]] (1757–1815). "His creations were so grotesque...when we looked at them, we realised they ''were'' the Vogons".<ref>Quoted in Stamp, R. (Ed.) and Simpson, P. ''The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (Boxtree 2005), p.48</ref><ref name=O'Dair>{{cite book |last=O'Dair |first=Marcus |author-link=Marcus O'Dair |date=2009 |title=The Rough Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |publisher=[[Rough Guides]] |chapter=Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz |isbn=978-1-84836-242-0}}</ref>
 
===Origins===