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{{Infobox person
|title = Jasper Boerstra
|image = Jasper Boerstra.png
|date_of_birth = {{Birth date and age|1996|06|18|mf=yes}}<ref>{{tweet|JasperBoerstra|1008446059239092224|I'm turning 22 in 1 and a half hour.|June 17, 2018}}</ref>
|occupation = Art Director
|nationality = Dutch
|languages =
|known_for =
|also_known_as = JAPPA
|minecraft_name = Jappaa
|reddit = Jappax
|twitter = JasperBoerstra
|bluesky = jappa.bsky.social
|wiki_name =
}}

'''Jasper Boerstra''', also known as '''Jappa''' or '''JAPPA''', is a full time employee who is currently working for [[Minecraft:Mojang Studios]] as an Art Director<ref>{{Tweet|JasperBoerstra|1521221569795743751|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. 🎉|May 2, 2022}}</ref> for ''[[Minecraft: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 [[Minecraft:Texture Update]], and he has since continued to create textures for new [[Minecraft:block]]s, [[Minecraft:item]]s, [[Minecraft:entity|entities]], and directing the main Vanilla Minecraft Art Team.

He also spearheaded the [[Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals]] project.<ref>https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/03/25/minecraft-vibrant-visuals</ref>

== Quotes ==
{{q|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. |[[Minecraft:Jasper Boerstra]] <ref name="twitter">https://web.archive.org/web/20181210033947/https://twitter.com/JasperBoerstra/status/928968321277530113</ref>||Jasper_Boerstra_Mojang_avatar.png}}

== Trivia ==
* Jasper wanted to be an entomologist and studied at an agricultural school before deciding to work on game development.<ref>{{tweet|JasperBoerstra|1769145887970709687|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|March 17, 2024}}</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Jasper Boerstra Mojang avatar Revision 1.png|Jasper Boerstra's first Mojang avatar.
File:Jasper Boerstra Mojang avatar.png|Jasper's second Mojang avatar.
File:Portrait-Jasper.png|A pixel art portrait of Jasper.
File:JAPPA twitter.jpg|Jasper's third Mojavatar during the Mojang Avatars redesign in 2021.
File:JAPPASKIN.png|Jasper's Minecraft skin.
File:Jappa Vertice Balance 1.jpg|Jasper's rules for designing models for ''Minecraft''.
File:Jappa Vertice Balance 2.jpg|Jasper's rules for designing models for ''Minecraft''.
Kanye West and Lil Pump.jpg|Parody art Jasper made of rappers {{Wikipedia|Kanye West}} and {{Wikipedia|Lil Pump}} mixing their appearance in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwQgjq0mCdE ''I Love It''] with the ''Minecraft'' art style.
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</gallery>

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