I was lucky enough to not to encounter anything major. But After Effect crushes every once in a while, and most of the time it does it when the work is not saved. So, go to the after effects preferences and set it on autosave - do yourself a favor.
Then I found out, that sometimes it is much easier to place certain parts of the animation as a separate composition within another composition. For example, my fishes consist of four layer each and I have a whole bunch of them on the screen. In order to avoid a huge clutter, I precomposed four layers that have different mask on that make a single fish as a separate composition. The difficulty is, when you have 30 copies of the same composition,and you need to make one of them, say, different color, do not change properties inside of the composition. It will change them all. Apply changes to the composition separately to the while thing.
When you need to make two masks that would be close together so that there is no gap between them, make one mask, set it on none, and then duplicate it with command+d. Then drag the points away to the area where you need them to be, leaving the adjusting edge intact.
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