Jacques Rouxel (26 February 1931 – 25 April 2004), born in Cherbourg, France, was a film animator. He is said to have been on a par with Tex Avery.^{[citation needed]} Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks,^[1] which first appeared in 1968.

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Rouxel graduated from the Lycée Français de New York in 1946 and obtained a business degree from the École des Hautes études commerciales.

He worked on the prototype of a special machine, the "Animographe", especially designed to accelerate the production of animated TV series.