Daphne Yap
Daphne Yap is a concept artist and illustrator who worked on two . She first worked uncredited as concept artist for alien background characters on  and later as illustrator for female alien characters and alien bodyguards on .  

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

In 2010, Yap won an ADG Excellence in Production Design Award in the category Fantasy Film for her work as concept illustrator on the science fiction feature 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 the fantasy film 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 the action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008), the science fiction thriller I Am Number Four (2011), the comic adaptation Thor (2011, starring Chris Hemsworth), the fantasy sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), the fantasy film Mirror Mirror (2012), the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), the comic adaptation The Wolverine (2013, with Famke Janssen and Patrick Stewart), and the fantasy film Maleficent (2014, directed by Robert Stromberg).

More recently, Yap worked as concept artist on the science fiction sequel Avatar 2 (2021, starring Zoe Saldana and Michelle Yeoh).

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