During production, Producer Sue Bea Montgomery showed little kids some concepts for the movie and watched the expressions on their faces. Since they especially liked the character of Japeth the Goat, they decided not to delete him, as they had initially planned.
Animated entirely in the Philippines.
The first encounter between Red and Wolf is told twice, using exactly the same dialogue, but the lighting is different to suggest the different viewpoints of the two characters.
(at around 36 mins) After Kirk the Woodsman gets his call back, Tommy, the lizard director says, "I have to be in a circle wipe, across town." A circle wipe is an effect in television and cinematography in which an image appears as a dot in the center of the screen, then expands to full size while overlaying the preceding image. This is exactly how Tommy appears on the screen when talking to Kirk.
The character of "The Wolf" seems to be patterned after Chevy Chase's "Fletch" character. He's an investigative reporter who dresses in a purple (LA Lakers) basketball jersey, uses disguises to get information and even his theme music is very much like what you hear in Fletch (1985). The wolf says he is a shepherd when asked his profession like Fletch