Artemple-Hollywood

Founded in January 2014 by visual effects artist and digital matte painter Wei Zheng, Artemple-Hollywood is an independent boutique visual effects and digital design studio based in Greater Los Angeles. It specializes in invisible visual effects: photorealistic imagery and subtle digital interventions that support storytelling while blending into live-action photography. Its work spans feature films, television and streaming series, advertising, themed entertainment and special venue attractions.

The studio’s capabilities include digital environments, historical and period recreations, 2D and 3D matte paintings, crowd duplication, set extensions and seamless compositing. Photoreal CG assets, beauty enhancements and digital cosmetic retouching complement its environment work. Its services also extend to conceptual art, previsualization, on-set VFX supervision, plate capture and live-action production, alongside motion graphics, experiential design, augmented reality and virtual reality.

Film and television work

Artemple-Hollywood contributed visual effects to David Fincher’s Gone Girl during its inaugural year, beginning a continuing collaboration with the director. Subsequent projects include both seasons of Mindhunter, with period environment replacements, crowd and vehicle integration, digital split-screens and historical plate augmentation. For Mank, the studio created period matte paintings, vintage rear-projection plates and background recreations evoking 1930s Los Angeles. Its work on The Killer included Parisian streetscapes, apartment-window environments and digital exterior augmentations.

The studio was the sole visual effects vendor for Entourage, delivering more than 150 shots involving 360-degree environment matte paintings, CG elements and crowd multiplication. Other productions include Vinyl, The Laundromat, War Dogs, Homecoming, Enter the Forbidden City and Xuan Zang, encompassing period settings, contemporary environments and historical architecture.

Advertising and experiential projects

Beyond film and television, Artemple-Hollywood supplied visual effects and compositing for Anheuser-Busch’s Super Bowl LV commercial, Let’s Grab a Beer. Its Fox Sports work for the FIFA Women’s World Cup included dynamic, photorealistic weather-controlled CG advertising assets displayed in Times Square and LA Live, illustrating the application of its visual effects capabilities to public-facing digital campaigns.