Mac Guff
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 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.[1][2]
Industry
1988 (1988) (as MGL Studio)
Jacques Bled
Rodolphe Chabrier
Philippe Sonrier
Martial Vallanchon
Thierry Bravais
Illumination Studios Paris (animation department)
Animated films
Company name[edit]
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.
(2010, short films)
Home Makeover, Orientation Day, and Banana
(2020, feature film dir. Tanguy de Kermel)
SamSam
(2021, feature film dir. Samuel Tourneux)
Around the World in 80 Days
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: (TV)
A Species Odyssey
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: (TV)
Homo sapiens
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: (Illumination opening logo variant only)
Hop
2011:
A Monster in Paris
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: