Rubix Cube Rigs Demo
(You might've seen this on my old account)
This is a video with a few choice selections of the many, many rubix cubes rigs I worked on. There were always issues, and I thought a dynamically parenting/grouping one would be best through the use of scripts and expressions.
However... some issues came up. I looked up so many tutorials trying to fix it, but it wouldn't pull the cubes out of the animation control handle's group once after a certain point, resulting in... wonky rotations after the first two or three.
It also crashes Maya 2016.
So I made a version that is completely manual, turning on an attribute inside of the cube's attribute box to parent it to the control you are rotating and then unparenting when it was completed.
It does require a lot of keyframes, but it was a very stable rig and that is what we needed most of all.