What is the deal with Yuna's face

[PhoenyxAngel]

Well keeping up with the appearance would be I dont know? Correct flaws.. But what is imperfect about her character design in the first place apart from the clothes? The character follows the "rules of human beauty" design-wise. I guess they just wanted to make her look more asian.. Idk..

I assumed they wanted to make her look a little more like Lenne.

I always thought she looked asian in both FFX and X-2.

And I agree with what some are saying: with the in game graphics they look similar. At least to me they do. It's just the CGI's that show the differences between FFX Yuna and X-2 Yuna.

[Lirael]

The image of her in X is from a wallpaper and I actually think she looks different in that wallpaper than she does in the game.

Here's an image from a FMV in X to compare.



Here's another image of X-2 Yuna to compare.


Personally, I feel the only real difference is her hair, which is a lot more stylish than her hair in X (although I prefer the hair in X and feel it suits her true character more!)

Some angles and examples do make Yuna look more Asian, but this occurs in both games. She looks kinda different in the dance scene, for example, at this point:




EDIT:
Oh, look at those first two images again! X-2 Yuna has smaller eyebrows! Clearly Rikku thought she needed a make over, because they were so awfully large in FFX!

[Omegadruid]

Well I dont know.. It might be just me.. But it seems her face in ffx-2 is smaller or something. Anyway also in X she has a different skin colour. In X is arguably more tanned. Well I guess it might be my eyes fooling me but in the end I will always prefer her FFX design.

[Chanteru]

I also prefer Yuna's design in FFX > FFX-2.

Hairstyle: I think her hairstyle in FFX-2 is a bit awkward-looking when you consider her personality in FFX, which was more sophisticated/mature/reserved, etc. As mentioned in an earlier post, the new edgy hairstyle may showcase her more confident attitude (although I've always found Yuna to be courageous and brave!). However, It's kinda like dressing up a goth in "ghetto-fabulous" clothes (weird analogy, I know). So weird to get used to... At least it was that way for me! hehe xD;

Face: I think I understand where @Omegadruid is coming from with the different facial features = different race issue. I think Yuna could have passed for an Asian/Caucasian mix in FFX, but she appears to have more Asian facial features in FFX-2 imo. Also, the shape of her eyes looks slightly different between both games. In FFX, they were a tad bit wider, whereas in FFX-2, they are a bit more slanted/almond-shaped (I think that's the term?)

There's nothing wrong with having Asian facial features of course, but I did find Yuna's ambiguous appearance in FFX to be quite interesting and well-thought-out. I mean, her parents are from two different "races," right? I think her mother was Al Bhed and her father was... ehh, whatever else there was? o.O Thus, the two different colored eyes. And actually, the Al Bhed seem more "Caucasian" to me because of the blond hair/green eyes, so maybe Yuna's Asian side so-to-speak would originate from her father... I would say European instead of Caucasian, but that's not classified as a racial category. xD Mehh, racial categories are pretty arbitrary at times anyhow. x_x

[LukeLC]

Well I dont know.. It might be just me.. But it seems her face in ffx-2 is smaller or something. Anyway also in X she has a different skin colour. In X is arguably more tanned. Well I guess it might be my eyes fooling me but in the end I will always prefer her FFX design.

The skin color always made sense to me, seeing as Yuna was living on a beach in X and on an airship in X-2.

[Gabe]

A lot of this is just over-thinking the motives behind her appearance change. I'm sure Square Enix's character design team thought of the changes they wanted to make FIRST, then possibly applied imagination as to why she looked different in those ways. I'm sure if you interviewed the character design team about it, they'd say "We wanted to make her look like a pop star, because when you're famous and are an icon, you'd probably want to make good impressions by perfecting your look." or something along the lines of that. The core motive behind the design team's appearance changes for her was probably to make her more sexy. Yuna was such an innocent, religious girl in FFX, then turned into a Hilary Duff of Spira.

[Sheechiibii]

Yeah, I think her face changed way too much. It's one thing to age, it's another thing entirely for your facial structure to change. Her head is a different shape, her face was oval in X and is more round in X-2. Her cheeks are far chubbier which makes no sense since age generally lessens chubbiiness not adds to it. Her eyes are a completely different shape as well and are much smaller in X-2. These are not things that come with aging.

I mean, these shots are pretty much the same position:



Most of it is the shape of her face as a whole, her face is much rounder in X-2 than in X which is pretty much impossible considering bone structure does not change.

In game however (not CGI) she looks almost exactly the same in X as she did in X-2 and the funny thing is that in both games she looks much more like the X CGI Yuna, not the X-2 Yuna which doesn't really make much sense since it should have been more accurate in X-2 being the newer game.

[LukeLC]

^ That's what happens when you start having new people working on a game. Most of X-2 was reused from X; I imagine the in-game Yuna just got a modification around the face, whereas the CGI Yuna had to be completely created from scratch. There's just not a great way to duplicate only one part of a mesh and still have it look right on a model that detailed, and so when the new guy took a new art direction with Yuna, there wasn't time to try again and still meet the deadline to release the game just a year after X. I don't know, I'm just guessing now

You can tell they completely recreated Rikku's CGI model too, but for some reason she stayed way more consistent. Probably had the same designer for her or something, though.

[Sheechiibii]

You can tell they completely recreated Rikku's CGI model too, but for some reason she stayed way more consistent. Probably had the same designer for her or something, though.

I think that had a lot to do with how little CGI Rikku there was in X, also she never smiled in X in the CGI scenes wheras in X-2 she's always smiling so it's much harder to compare. I do agree though that she's way more consistant, her face is still the same shape and her features haven't really changes. She's lost some of her chubby cheeks but she was very young in X so that's a reasonable thing to happen in 2 years. Yuna's differences aren't

[Omegadruid]

I couldnt have explained it better!!! Thanks for better expressing my thoughts with that explanation @Sheechiibii