Things that stood out to me about this one:
- The way Garsevan spends his time at the nature reserve is kind of unconvincing and it seems like he could've done most/all of that at a city park. I think the people who made this movie were not actually very outdoorsy people.
- Fun character designs for the three villains (although the trigger-happy yet miniscule caricature of an American cowboy is a bit... suspect)
- Robert Saakyants was one of the 3 animators (not mentioned on animator.ru), though this was three years AFTER he started directing his own films
- the film is fundamentally pessimistic. The hapless main character ultimately can't do a thing to solve the problem of the poachers, other than escape to the moon with a few refugees (!). A decade or two earlier, at least in Soyuzmultfilm, no script editor would have allowed such a script to go to production - they would have likely insisted on adding some positive qualities to Garsevan that would have allowed him to solve the problem, or show a path for those watching the film to solve it. A decade later, in the Perestroika period, such hopeless plots became commonplace in the Moscow animation studios, too.