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Jappa

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Jasper Boerstra
Jasper Boerstra.png: Infobox image for Minecraft person 'Jasper Boerstra'
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Jasper Boerstra, also known as Jappa or JAPPA, is a full time employee who is currently working for Mojang Studios as an Art Director[2] 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, entities, and directing the main Vanilla Minecraft Art Team.

He also spearheaded the Vibrant Visuals project.[3]

Quotes

WHAT IS JAPPA DOING TO MY MINECRAFT?

Changing the textures! Except for a few, like the Creeper.

Across all versions? YEP, both on Java and Bedrock. You cannot escape my sweet, sweet textures.

When? Soon! In the Beta Resource Pack, where all my beloved pixels live.

— Jasper Boerstra [4]

Trivia

  • Jasper wanted to be an entomologist and studied at an agricultural school before deciding to work on game development.[5]
  • Jasper Boerstra's first Mojang avatar.
    Jasper Boerstra's first Mojang avatar.
  • Jasper's second Mojang avatar.
    Jasper's second Mojang avatar.
  • A pixel art portrait of Jasper.
    A pixel art portrait of Jasper.
  • Jasper's third Mojavatar during the Mojang Avatars redesign in 2021.
    Jasper's third Mojavatar during the Mojang Avatars redesign in 2021.
  • Jasper's Minecraft skin.
    Jasper's Minecraft skin.
  • Jasper's rules for designing models for Minecraft.
    Jasper's rules for designing models for Minecraft.
  • Jasper's rules for designing models for Minecraft.
    Jasper'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.
    Parody art Jasper made of rappers Kanye West and Lil Pump mixing their appearance in I Love It with the Minecraft art style.

References

  1. ↑ "I'm turning 22 in 1 and a half hour." – @JasperBoerstra (Jasper Boerstra) on X (formerly Twitter), June 17, 2018
  2. ↑ "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
  3. ↑ https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/03/25/minecraft-vibrant-visuals
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20181210033947/https://twitter.com/JasperBoerstra/status/928968321277530113
  5. ↑ "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

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