Avery HansenProp & Costume Maker
Avery Hansen's lamp-lit workbench at night: an open book reading 'Avery Hansen, Prop & Costume Fabricator, Vancouver BC' and 'Built for Story: props, costumes, masks, armour and creature pieces made by hand for film, theatre, and imagined worlds', surrounded by a sewing machine, magnifier lamp, brushes, and handmade oddities.

Bringing dreams and schemes to life.

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The collection

Finished pieces, catalogued

A curated cabinet of finished builds: costumes, armour, masks, and creature pieces, each entry labelled with the materials it was made from. Select any piece to open its full record.

Photograph from the Queen Amidala project.
No. 01

Queen Amidala

Full costume build: gown, headpiece & makeup

  • Insulation foam
  • Felt
  • Hair wefts
  • +7 more
Close-up of the serpent's papier-mâché face: black-and-cream book-page skin, button-like eyes, and torn red fabric fringe hung with small bells.
No. 02

Jörm

Basic hand-crank serpent automaton

  • Papier-mâché
  • Wood
  • Air-dry foam clay
  • +6 more
SFX makeup portrait: a performer with amber honeycomb-textured prosthetic transfers across one cheek, hand, and chest, against a rust-coloured backdrop.
No. 03

Assorted Oddities

Prosthetics, creature pieces

  • Armature wire
  • Silc Pig
  • Silicone
  • +11 more
Photograph from the New project 11 project.
No. 04

Background Actor for a Film That Doesn't Exist

Full costume design and makeup

  • EVA Foam
  • Fabric
  • PLA filament
  • +6 more
Seated performer in black wearing the One-Eye mask: a rounded pale face with a single dark eye and a crooked toothy mouth, spotlit against a plaster wall.
No. 05

Masks

Commissioned set of four character masks

  • Papier-mâché
  • Air-dry clay
  • Tinfoil
  • +2 more
Photograph from the Loki Accessories & Props project.
No. 06

Loki Accessories & Props

Foam armour set: muzzle, pauldron & cuffs

  • EVA foam
  • Insulation foam
  • Flexible acrylic paint
  • +3 more
Photograph from the Fibre Sculpture project.
No. 07

Fibre Sculpture

A light-up original felt sculpture

  • Wool roving
  • LED lights
Photograph from the Little Prince Armour project.
No. 08

Little Prince Armour

Storybook breastplate & pauldrons in foam

  • EVA foam
  • PLAID FX paint
  • Contact Cement
Photograph from the Crimson Peak Cosplay project.
No. 09

Crimson Peak Cosplay

Edwardian Nightgown and SFX Scar

  • Lace
  • Crepe fabric
  • Scar Wax
  • +1 more
Photograph from the Alien Antennae project.
No. 10

Alien Antennae

Short line for the gallery card

  • armature wire
  • faux feathers
  • Silicone
  • +1 more
Front view of a small cast concrete statuette: a hooded creature with swirling carved hair holding a skull, with moss growing in its crevices, on a white plinth.
No. 11

Statuette

Cast-Crete Exercise

  • Castcrete
  • Acrylic paint
  • Moss
About

Meet the builder

Avery L. Hansen is a prop and costume fabricator based in the unceded territories of the Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Squamish, Stó:lō and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

It all started when Avery found out that Halloween only came once a year as a child, and decided that that just wasn't enough. Now in her fourth year as a Visual Arts major at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she is completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts while building for film, theatre, and commissions from clients.

Her practice spans prop and armour foam fabrication, painting and weathering, fibre arts, and silicone and plaster mould making.

Portrait of Avery Hansen.
Avery Hansen, Vancouver, BC
Capabilities

The workshop inventory

A working inventory of the methods, madness, and materials.

Education

  • Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts major (fourth year, in progress)
  • Intern at Flying Fox Prop Shop (2025)

Skills

  • Prosthetic design
  • Mask making
  • Costume construction
  • Prop fabrication
  • Character design
  • Period research
  • SFX makeup creation & application
  • Foam latex casting
  • EVA foam fabrication
  • Painting, finishing & weathering
  • Silicone & plaster mould making
  • Felting (wet and dry), sewing & embroidery

Materials

  • EVA & insulation foam
  • Monster clay
  • Papier-mâché
  • Silicone (Dragon Skin, Latex)
  • Fabric, felt, and other fibre based materials
  • Cast-Crete, Hydrocal, & plaster
  • Acrylic paint, flexible acrylic & FX paints

Focus areas

  • Film props
  • Original character pieces
  • Theatre costumes
  • Masks and headpieces
  • Custom commissions
Commissions & collaborations

The curio cabinet is open

Whether for an indie film, YouTube video, cosplay, Fringe show or Halloween scheme, Avery would be happy to help you build your monsters... or battleaxe. Or daggers.

  • WorkshopVancouver, BC

Available for prop studio work, fabrication assistance, costume builds, commissions, and indie film/theatre collaborations.