Jasper Boerstra
Jasper Boerstra
| Real name |
Jasper Boerstra |
|---|---|
| Date of birth |
June 18, 1996 (age 29)[1] |
| Occupation |
Art Director |
| Nationality |
Dutch |
| Also known as |
JAPPA |
| Reddit name | |
| X (Twitter) username | |
| Bluesky username | |
| Minecraft name |
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Jasper Boerstra is a full time employee who is currently working for Mojang Studios as an Art Director[3] for Minecraft. He was hired to change the great majority of the old textures in the game. Most of his changes to the game's textures took effect in the Texture Update, and he has since continued to create textures for new blocks, items, and entities.
Gallery
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Boerstra's first Mojang avatar. -
Boerstra's second Mojang avatar. -
A pixel art portrait of Jasper. -
JAPPA's third Mojavatar during the Mojang Avatars redesign in 2021. -
JAPPA's Minecraft skin. -
Jappa’s rules for designing models for Minecraft. -
Jappa’s rules for designing models for Minecraft. -
Parody art Jasper made of rappers Kanye West and Lil Pump mixing their appearance in I Love It with the Minecraft art style. -
Trivia
- Jasper wanted to be an entomologist and studied at an agricultural school before deciding to work on game development.[4]
References
- ↑ "I'm turning 22 in 1 and a half hour." – @JasperBoerstra (Jasper Boerstra) on X (formerly Twitter), June 17, 2018
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20181210033947/https://twitter.com/JasperBoerstra/status/928968321277530113
- ↑ "I'm happy to announce I'm the Art Director for Minecraft now. What this means is that I'll be making less art but focusing on the overarching strategy, developing the art team and making guidelines to communicate what makes Minecraft art so great and how to replicate it. 🎉" – @JasperBoerstra (Jasper Boerstra) on X (formerly Twitter), May 2, 2022
- ↑ "I went to an agricultural school where I shaved sheep and cows and I shoveled a lot of crap because I wanted to become an entomologist but then thought screw that I'm going to make videogames instead" – @JasperBoerstra (Jasper Boerstra) on X (formerly Twitter), March 17, 2024
