Illumination Mac Guff

Illumination Mac Guff, now trading as Illumination Studios Paris, is an animation studio in central Paris. It makes animated feature films that Illumination Entertainment produces for Universal Pictures, working from storyboarding through to compositing.

What Illumination Mac Guff offers

• Animated feature films — 3D animation production, including work on Despicable Me, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing and The Grinch.
• Marketing content — adverts, teasers and prints made through the same pipeline as the films.
• Short films — shorts alongside the features.
• Recent projects — The Super Mario Bros. Movie and later films, including Migration and Despicable Me 4.

Who it works with

The studio works for its parent company, Illumination, which is based in Santa Monica, California and has a financing and distribution partnership with Universal Pictures.

Key facts

• Based in: Paris, France
• Set-up: all production teams housed in one place
• Parent: Illumination, founded in 2007