Mac Guff (also known as Mac Guff Ligne) is a French visual effects company based in Los Angeles, United States, Brussels, Belgium and Paris, France, where it is headquartered. Mac Guff specializes in the creation of computer graphics for commercials, music videos, television series, and feature films. 270 graphic designers, VFX supervisors and producers, computer engineers, and administrators are usually working on over 100 million files (for Despicable Me). In mid-2011, the company was split in two, and the animation department was acquired by Illumination Entertainment (Universal Studios). The new company was named Illumination Mac Guff (now known as Illumination Studios Paris) and has capital worth 3.2 million euro.Juridic information about Illumination Mac Guff
Company name The company name Mac Guff was inspired by the term MacGuffin. The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term "MacGuffin" and the technique.
Animated productions La Vie des bêtes (1988, design. Philippe Starck) "Love Don't Let Me Go" (2002, music video for David Guetta dir. Olivier Boscovitch) Pat & Stan (2004–2010, television series dir. Pierre Coffin) Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006, feature film dir. Michel Ocelot) Dragon Hunters (2008, feature film dir. Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel) Despicable Me (2010, feature film dir. Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud) Home Makeover, Orientation Day, and Banana (2010, short films) Hop (2011, feature film dir. Tim Hill, Illumination opening logo variant only) Brad & Gary (2011, short film) A Monster in Paris (2011, feature film dir. Bibo Bergeron) The Lorax (2012, feature film dir. Chris Renaud) Kirikou and the Men and Women (2012, feature film dir. Michel Ocelot) Life, Animated (2016, feature film dir. Roger Ross Williams, animated sequences only) Dilili in Paris (2018, feature film dir. Michel Ocelot) SamSam (2020, feature film dir. Tanguy de Kermel) Around the World in 80 Days (2021, feature film dir. Samuel Tourneux) Night of the Zoopocalypse (2024, feature film dir. Rodrigo Perez-Castro and Ricardo Curtis)
Features 1995: La Haine 1997: Dobermann 1997: Contact 1998: Quasimodo d'El Paris 1998: The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time 1999: Train de vie 2000: Cours toujours 2000: Scènes de crimes 2001: Vidocq 2001: Safe Conduct 2001: G@mer 2001: Snowboarder 2001: Le Petit Poucet 2002: Monsieur Batignole 2002: Irréversible 2002: Brocéliande 2002: Filles perdues, cheveux gras 2002: Ginostra 2002: Quelqu'un de bien 2003: Love Me If You Dare 2003: Blueberry 2003: A Species Odyssey (TV) 2004: L'Américain 2004: L'Équipier 2004: Agents secrets 2004: Arsène Lupin 2005: La Boîte noire 2005: Ma vie en l'air 2005: Danny the Dog 2005: Joyeux Noël 2005: Homo sapiens (TV) 2006: Bandidas 2006: Azur et Asmar 2006: Tell No One 2007: Truands 2007: La Tête de maman 2007: 3 Amis 2007: L'Invité 2007: 99 francs 2007: Les Femmes de l'ombre 2008: Dragon Hunters 2008: Un conte de Noël 2008: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life 2008: Comme les autres 2008: Mes stars et moi 2008: Transporter 3 2008: Largo Winch 2009: Welcome 2009: Coco 2009: Un prophète 2009: Park Benches 2009: Happy End 2009: L'affaire Farewell 2009: Le Petit Nicolas 2009: Une affaire d'État 2009: 22 Bullets 2009: Coco and Igor 2009: Splice 2010: With Love... from the Age of Reason 2010: Sarah's Key 2010: Despicable Me 2011: Hop (Illumination opening logo variant only) 2011: A Monster in Paris 2012: The Lorax 2012: The Gatekeepers 2012: Taken 2 2014: Brick Mansions 2014: 3 Days to Kill 2015: The Transporter Refueled 2015: Taken 3 2016: Life, Animated 2017: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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