"Vanity" was born as the central project in a character modeling course. The structure of the project was to pick one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and to design a character based around it. The first modern image I associated with Vanity was that of the fashion model, to me a patently artificial person. Hence Vanity's exaggerated form and hollow skull/back, to give the impression that the creature is injection-molded. Some historical research showed that, in the Medieval teaching system of the Sins, there is an animal and a color associated with each, in this case violet and the horse. This gave the sickly plastic color and the hoofed feet, which echo contemporary high-heels and add to the original fashion-model parody. Vanity's face was animated entirely using blendshapes (some of which can be seen in the gallery) and was designed for optimized sneering.