Evan Abrams shows how he created the spinning rubix cube style animation rotating titles around easily in After Effects.
Make solids spin like a rubix cube using fake 3d techniques
This is a pretty straight forward build in After Effects where the mechanics are fairly simple as well as the creation of the actual objects needed. The real “gold” comes in from the techniques involved to make it all work using nested compositions and creating a workflow that is easily editable for future animations.
Be sure to check out ECAbrams and his youtube channel for more great tutorials in After Effects and such.