The Three Warrior Hogs and the Really Big Bad Wolf.

This month's LAIKA/House creative challenge centered around Failed Fairytales.  I had a little trouble coming up with a solution since the subject has been done again and again (especially with red riding hood).  I kept getting stuck at my favorite Stinky Cheese Man stories, like the Really Ugly Ducking.

(Nikki helped me come up with the brilliant "Twelve Breakdancing Princesses)

But I kept going back to the Three Little Pigs.  My first idea was an army of wolves versus a brick castle.  That got the idea of warrior pigs into my head.  Through sketches, they ended up being Viking-inspired boars.  And then I took some reference:

Here's the finished piece:

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