Dianne Jackson (28 July 1941 – 31 December 1992) was an English animation director, best known for The Snowman, made in 1982 and repeated every Christmas on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
She is particularly noted for recreating the style of the original artists in her animations, for example of Raymond Briggs's picture book, The Snowman and John Burningham's Granpa.
She also wrote the outlines and treatments for the first series of animated adaptations of the tales of Beatrix Potter as The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends.
[1] The series episode "The Tailor of Gloucester", a Xmas special, which was in production during the last year of her life is "dedicated to her memory".
[2] Hillier first married Michael Jackson in 1963 (divorced 1971), and secondly David Norton in 1975, with whom she had one son and one daughter.