Claude Cloutier is a Canadian film animator and illustrator based in Quebec.

He began his animation career with the 1988 short The Persistent Peddler (Le colporteur), which was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

His 2007 short Sleeping Betty (Isabelle au bois dormant) is a humorous Sleeping Beauty adaptation that received numerous international and Canadian awards including bhe Genie and the Jutra.

His 2015 short Carface (Auto Portraits), received the Prix Guy-L.-Coté Best Canadian Animation Film at Sommets du cinéma d'animation in Montreal and was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination.

He worked most notably as an illustrator with the now-defunct Quebec satirical magazine Croc, with two comic book-style series, La légende des Jean-Guy and Gilles la Jungle contre Méchant-Man.