What is the deal with Yuna's face

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Omegadruid

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In Final Fantasy X Yuna is beautiful. She has a blue eye and a green eye, she has a semi asian/american face.
http://icecube24.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/ffx_journal_skin_yuna_blue_by_ayikothedemon.jpg
On the other hand on X-2 Yuna is like another person..did she do a plastic surgery to make her more asian? WTF? I mean Its not that she is not beautiful anymore but it is really wrong to change a character so much imo. I prefer the original Yuna way more... a 1000x more.
http://www.ffshrine.org/ffx2/fmvshots/03yunaintro/00014.jpg
Its like they change Terra's hair around all the time. Sometimes its green sometimes its blonde... Why cant they be consistent.. This is utter BS. Tell me what you think and which version of Yuna do you prefer.
 
I think a lot has to do with the fact that two years have passed, and her hairstyle has changed. She's matured slightly, and a change in hair can really change how you perceive a face.

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Like those two women are the same person, but they look a lot different because of the hair change.

Yuna looks mostly the same to me.
 
Hmmmm...I prefer FFX Yuna....as she looks more shy and innocent and quiet. FFX-2 she looks different because of her hair etc, it gives her that confidence factor which to us makes her look weird. It's like a mother seeing her son/daughter with long hair, and like 3 hours later their cut and styled short with different colour dye. Same people but it's the interpretation of it.

I also think FFX-2 is a year or two later is it not? when you consider the age of FF characters 'look old but are young' concept she just grew into her adult looks. But that's my view.
 
The title of this topic made me laugh :wacky:

I think the difference between the two is even more pronounced by the fact that X-2 didn't have much CGI, and that CGI that it did have was much closer to its in-game graphics. Looking at in-game Yuna in X, the difference between her and Yuna in X-2 isn't as pronounced as it is in the two pictures provided in the first post for comparison. She looks like she's aged at least five years and not two, but...eh, this is Final Fantasy. Hell, this is Japanese. This is nothing compared to some of the age-ups that go on in anime and manga. Tomoe Hotaru, anyone?

Being just about the only person on this forum - and likely this planet - who thinks X is crap and X-2 is wonderful (no, I am not trolling; I genuinely believe this) I prefer the X-2 Yuna...she looks closer to 19 than X's Yuna does to 17, and I've never liked characters that look younger than what they actually are...excluding Lymle in Star Ocean, who was adorable, kay?

I think it's the hair that gives the effect more than anything else. It's rather spiky in X-2. In X it's scruffy.
 
This is something that bothered me too. But I kind of shrugged it off thinking that things change in the world of Spira faster than they do in the real world. lol. For instance: look at Yuna's hair. Her hair grew way to fast in two years time. And look at Rikku's face, it also change dramatically. The same could possibly be said of Tidus/Shuyin. My theory is that Shuyin looks like what Tidus would look like in a few years. Why do I think that? Look at how Yuna's face changed. Her face became more broader and kind of square like when before she had a more oval face. My theory is that Tidus would have through facial changes too, if he hadn't
disappeared in FFX
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But, if you think about it.... the fact that their faces change so much in such a short amount of time makes no sense logically. But this IS final FANTASY. So....logic kind of flies right out the window, right? :neomon:

I'm going to go play some underwater polo for 5 minutes.......
 
I think her facial structure was somewhat modified, pointier chin, maybe...

Her eyes look really different, but I think that's because she's wearing make-up in X-2. She has lipstick on and her eyelashes seem more prominent. Her skin tone also seems more pale, and her eyebrows definitely had a pluck-job. That's what happens when you transform into a pop star :P It might just be the lighting of that shot in X-2 as well.
 
Well I guess she needs to keep up with her appearance being a celebrity/singer/High Summoner who actually defeated Sin for good. I'd imagine she's the most famous person in the history of Spira after the events of X.
 
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 don't see much of a difference besides an update in what she'd look like years after and graphics become a tad bit more sharp than X's system. I was going to say something very similar to Apricots and .Mosh's posts, since that's what I always thought, but they said it for me. :P I can only see a major difference in what she looks like when CGI movies play.

I like both the Yunas, by the way.
 
Omegadruid said:
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..
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I assumed they wanted to make her look a little more like Lenne. :hmmm:

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.
 
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. :hmmm:

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

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Here's another image of X-2 Yuna to compare.
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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. :hmmm: She looks kinda different in the dance scene, for example, at this point:

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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! :lew:
 
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.
 
I also prefer Yuna's design in FFX > FFX-2. :ari:

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
 
Omegadruid said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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:
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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.
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^ 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 :P

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.
 
LukeLC said:
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.
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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 :P
 
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