Daphne Yap

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Daphne Yap is a concept artist and illustrator who worked on two Star Trek films. She first worked uncredited as concept artist for alien background characters on Star Trek and later as illustrator for female alien characters and alien bodyguards on Star Trek Beyond. [1] [2]

In 2008, Design Studio Press released a book of her sketches, titled "Daphne 01: Sketches by Daphne Yap: The Art of Daphne Yap". [3] Yap also worked as designer and sculptor for McFarlane Toys, Disney Consumer Products and between 2003 and 2012 for Mattel, Inc. [4]

In 2010, Yap won an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award in the category Fantasy Film for her work as concept illustrator on Avatar which she shared with Robert Stromberg, Todd Cherniawsky, Ryan Church, James Clyne, Victor Martinez, Tex Kadonaga, Richard F. Mays, Scott Herbertson, Paul Ozzimo, Tammy S. Lee, Gregory Jein, Jason Mahakian, Steven Messing, Joseph Hiura, Karl J. Martin, C. Scott Baker, and Andrew Reeder. In 2011, she earned another nomination in the same category for her work on Alice in Wonderland, shared with Robert Stromberg, Todd Cherniawsky, Kasra Farahani, Scott Herbertson, C. Scott Baker, David Moreau, Tammy S. Lee, Richard F. Mays, Jeff Markwith, Anne Porter, Jim Martin, Steven Messing, Jason Mahakian, Jeff Frost, and Gregory Jein.

Further credits include Tropic Thunder (2008), I Am Number Four (2011), Thor (2011, starring Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Mirror Mirror (2012), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), The Wolverine (2013, with Famke Janssen and Patrick Stewart), and Maleficent (2014, directed by Robert Stromberg).

Yap later worked as concept artist on Avatar: The Way of Water (2021, starring Zoe Saldana and Michelle Yeoh).

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