The lost souls are the audience members in No Entry After Midnight and if they feed on too many human souls/remains, they go through a transformation into something horrifying. These new manifestations are called “corrupted lost souls”. They are sensitive to sound and vibration, but they’re blind.
Initially, I got inspiration from a character in media called “No face” which is a character from Spirited Away, a Studio Ghibli film.
I liked this character’s silhouette and overall simplistic design, it’s something that I want to implement with the audience members’ concept art. Another thing I want to put in their design are masks. As I did research on 4th wall breaks- which can be found here– I feel like it would be fitting to use masks to symbolise the lack of remorse and responsibility the audience members have.
Lost souls concept art
Displayed above are the concepts of the lost souls that can be found in the audience or carnival at night. The first one shows the state of the soul acting normally, the second one shows the soul in distress, this means the player can do side quests for this soul in exchange for other quest items or currency.
Corrupted lost souls concept art
Here, I practiced some silhouette concept art, plotting down ink without thinking too much of it at first and adding onto those ink shapes. Eventually, I came up with three designs as I wanted to get this done relatively quickly.
Finally, I came up with this crooked design of a corrupted lost soul. I wanted to create a disfigured silhouette with ink or black tar seemingly spilling out of it. Another thing that I painted in was the mask split into two halves, showcasing the happy face and sad face commonly found in theatres.