Mac Guff


Mac Guff 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. In mid-2011, the company was split in two, and the animation department was acquired by Illumination Entertainment. The new company was named Illumination Mac Guff and has capital worth 3.2 million euro.

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
  • "Love Don't Let Me Go"
  • Pat & Stan
  • Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
  • Dragon Hunters
  • Despicable Me
  • Home Makeover, Orientation Day, and Banana
  • Hop
  • Brad & Gary
  • A Monster in Paris
  • The Lorax
  • Kirikou and the Men and Women
  • Life, Animated
  • Dilili in Paris
  • SamSam
  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • ''Night of the Zoopocalypse''

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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''