Mac Guff

Mac Guff (also known as Mac Guff Ligne) is a French visual effects company based in both Los Angeles, USA and Paris, France, where it is headquartered. Mac Guff specializes in the creation of computer-generated imagery for commercials, music videos and feature films. 270 graphic designers, VFX supervisors and producers, computer engineers and administrators are usually working on 100+ million files (for Despicable Me). In mid-2011, the company was split in two, and the animation department has been acquired by Illumination Entertainment (Universal Studios). The new company is named "Illumination Mac Guff" and has capital worth 3.2 million euro.[1][2]

Mac Guff
IndustryVisual effects
SuccessorIllumination Mac Guff (animation department)
Founded1988 as MGL Studio
1994 as Mac Guff
FounderJacques Bled, Rodolphe Chabrier, Philippe Sonrier, Martial Vallanchon, Thierry Bravais
Headquarters
Paris
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France
ProductsAnimated films
Websitewww.macguff.fr 

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

Features
gollark: I think most sane people agree that backdoors are bad at this point.
gollark: In the UK the police apparently *can* legally compel you to give up your passwords because UK.
gollark: Anyway, I think if you use standard and generally-considered-good cryptographic algorithms with trusted open-source implementations you're probably okay. Unless you're being actively, personally targeted by nation-states. In which case you have bigger problems.
gollark: Like I said, they can't practically ban strong encryption, just make it so that the average people's communications don't use it.
gollark: Then, anyone who uses strong crypto can be called an evil terrorist because all Good Citizens are using backdoored stuff.

References
  1. Juridic information about Illumination Mac Guff
  2. Keslassy, Elsa (December 12, 2011). "Universal benefit in Mac Guff accord". Variety. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
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