| Mac Guff | |
| Industry: | Visual effects, Animation |
| Founded: | (as MGL Studio) |
| Defunct: | (animation studio) |
| Successor: | Illumination Studios Paris (animation department) |
| Founders: | Jacques Bled Rodolphe Chabrier Philippe Sonrier Martial Vallanchon Thierry Bravais |
| Location City: | Paris |
| Location Country: | France |
| Products: | Animated films |
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]
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.