Confidential by default
Restricted files, private briefs, and unreleased work stay out of public channels unless publication is approved.
Custom trophies, props, costumes, and installations
Built for the moment the world is watching.
Hoku Props is a Southern California fabrication studio for championship trophies, hero props, costumes, and installations. We build for games, esports, film, museums, and live events.
DesignEngineeringFabricationFinishingDelivery planningStudio
Championship trophy / esportsTEKKEN World Tour 2025 Built by Hoku Props. Photography by Thu Nguyen.
Repeat work for Riot Games, Digital Extremes, ReedPop, and LeftField Media. Built for TEKKEN World Tour and 100 Thieves.
Selected work
Objects with a job to do.
A focused set of public projects with explicit credit lines and source links. The work leads. The evidence is close behind it.
Production discipline
Creative ambition needs operational confidence.
High-profile work succeeds when approvals, information handling, and delivery receive the same attention as the finish.
Built around the deadline
Feasibility, approval gates, fabrication milestones, and delivery windows are defined before the schedule gets fragile.
The handoff is part of the build
Final checks, protective packing, handling, transport, and presentation needs are planned with the object itself.
Capabilities
One studio. The whole build.
Creative direction, digital tools, machine processes, hand fabrication, finishing, and practical delivery planning under one roof.
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Awards & trophies
Championship trophies, medals, and presentation objects planned for the reveal, the recipient, and the real delivery deadline.
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Props & replicas
Camera-ready hero props, weapons, and replicas for games, film, television, and creator campaigns, built to be handled, photographed, and shipped.
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Installations & exhibits
Physical pieces for museums, galleries, art installations, brand activations, and convention floors, with transport, install, and on-site support planned from the start.
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Costume & character
Wearable character builds and creature work for stage, screen, and live appearances, from fitting through finish.
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Confidential fabrication support
Discreet fabrication and overflow production support for studios, agencies, and production partners.
How we work
Plan the reveal. Protect the deadline.
The creative object and the production path are designed together. Send the reveal date, approval chain, source files, and delivery constraints together and we can assess an ambitious schedule faster. How a project runs.
Prepare the brief- 01Define the moment
Audience, recipient, reveal, scale, budget, deadline, and delivery constraints.
- 02Lock the plan
A written proposal: creative direction, materials, engineering, approvals, milestones, logistics, and terms.
- 03Build and review
Fabrication, finishing, assembly, and documented approval gates.
- 04Pack and deliver
Final checks, presentation planning, protective packing, and handoff.
The studio
Game-native makers with production discipline.
Chad Van Wye leads creative direction, design, engineering, fabrication, finishing, and education. Samantha Rumbaugh leads communications, community, events, and the public story around the work.
Meet Hoku PropsHave a high-stakes brief?
Build the part people remember.
Tell us what the moment is, who it is for, when it needs to land, and what success must feel like.
Start a project briefStill figuring it out? Email the studio.