After Effects Overall Opinion

I put all of my compositions together and found that I was 2 seconds out, in order to shave off the extra time I carefully cut it from the opening of the dreaming hamster scene and took some time of the hamster running close up scene. I was worried that it would make my animation too fast but it hasn't affected it too much, having said this I plan on raising this issue during crit. I am also a little worried that I've kept the animation AE side of it too simple - I have literally experimented with the transform tools and the generate stroke effect hopefully this is all ok since I do like the look of my animation and what I've achieved hopefully I can get more opinions on this in crit.