After losing his left eye, one genius visual effects artist created a jaw-dropping Overwatch cosplay suit based on the Reinhardt character, whose left eye is also damaged. Chad Hoku lost his eye in a workshop accident in 2014, but was later inspired to embrace his injury by the Reinhardt character. The prop designer won TwitchCon 2016's cosplay contest with his stunning Overwatch cosplay, taking home the $15,000 prize. Chad, who runs the Los Angeles-based Hoku Props, told Totally Game: "It's important to not necessarily think about the things I can't do because of the accident, but instead try to figure out ways of doing the things I want to do. "I've always been fascinated with video games and interested in the process of taking something from a video game or fantasy world and pulling it into our reality."
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