Jacques Drouin was born in Mont-Joli, Quebec.

By the early 1970s, he was an apprentice at the National Film Board of Canada and experimenting with this unique form of animation.

[3] Drouin continued making pinscreen animation films for the National Film Board of Canada, one of the only animators in the world to still use this difficult but rewarding process.

[3] Some of his short films are available on NFB DVD collections, and a few are available online.

Late in his career he trained animator Michèle Lemieux in the pinscreen technique and passed his pinscreen on to her, with which she made the 2012 film Here and the Great Elsewhere (Le Grand ailleurs et le petit ici).