Illumination

Illumination Entertainment is an American animation film production company, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007 while in Japan, it got founded 6 years later. It is owned by Meledandri and Universal Studios, a division of NBCUniversal, with Universal fully financing and owning all the films and as well as everything else that they had made throughout the years. The company is best known for being the creators of the Despicable Me franchise, its spin-off/prequel Minions and the films The Secret Life of Pets and Sing. The Minions themselves, characters from the Despicable Me films, are the studio's official mascots. Its films are co-produced and/or distributed by Universal Pictures.

Trivia

 * In 2018, Illumination Mac Guff the animation studio will move to Toronto and Ontario, Canada, and change its name to Illumination Canada.