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Long Beach has been the home to countless movie and television sets, from the hit Showtime series Dexter<\/em> to the all-star cult comedy Anchorman<\/em>. Along with the glitz and glamour of permits and camera rigs, in the studio of Alan Villenueva, lies a lesser-known sect of the entertainment industry\u2014costume design.<\/p>\n Villenueva\u2019s recent project include costumes for Oz: The Great and Powerful<\/em> and a recently aired pilot for a reboot of the classic monster show The Munsters<\/em>.<\/p>\n Villenueva recently spoke to the Post<\/em> from his Long Beach studio regarding his art background and how he found himself designing costumes for the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n Villenueva spent much of his childhood drawing, tracing his children\u2019s books and using his action figures to compose still lifes. He took classes in super hero drawing at a local community center with teacher Patrick Tierney and eventually found himself in art school, freelancing for companies like Worldwide Ducati and designing band t-shirts.<\/p>\n He gradated from Cal State Long Beach with a BFA in Illustration. With the guidance of the head of the Illustration Department Robin Richesson, he began an internship working with a Hollywood screenplay writer doing pre-visual concepts. It was his introduction to the excitement, realities, deadlines and stresses of working in the film industry.<\/p>\n In November 2010, Alan got sworn into the Costume Designers Guild (CDG), allowing him to work on union big-budget films that show in nationwide theatres. He dedicated months to revamping his portfolio to get in, created all new characters with various costumes and went through an intense review.<\/p>\n Since joining CDG, Villenueva has worked on numerous feature films and television shows including Disney’s OZ: The Great and Powerful<\/em>, due in theatres March 2013, sci-fi feature Ender’s Game<\/em> due out November 2013 and Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain<\/em>. His latest project was costume concepts for the series pilot Mockingbird Lane<\/em> a reboot of his favorite show The Munster’s.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAlthough some Creative Directors request pencil sketches, for the most part I work completely digital with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet,\u201d Villenueva says of his working technique. \u201cIt is weird not using a pencil anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n Most of his characters are heavily art directed with reference photos, especially with period-era films, and he oftentimes is requested to do at least one finished character a day, from concept to finish. \u201cThe deadlines can be pretty gnarly,\u201d he says, \u201cbut it has to be done when an entire film or TV show schedule depends on it.\u201d<\/p>\n Check out Villenueva\u2019s film and a variety of other work at www.alanvillanueva.com<\/a>, and his film credits www.imdb.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long Beach has been the home to countless movie and television sets, from the hit Showtime series Dexter<\/em> to the all-star cult comedy Anchorman<\/em>. 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