Illumination Mac Guff (Mac Guff Line) is a French animated featureproduction company owned by Illumination Entertainment. The company was created in 2011 as part of Illumination's parent company Universal Pictures' purchase deal of the animation arm of French animation and VFX company Mac Guff and are responsible for Illumination's feature-length animated films (except for Hop) and associated short films, most notably the Despicable Me franchise.