Blue Squares

The first day back after our winter break we were asked to complete an exercise. Professor Tuan gave us the illustrator file of a series of blue squares (see video) aligned in a block formation. He then gives us a .mp4 of these squares doing various rotations and effects. He asks us to recreate this video using After Effects. 

Using different effects in Adobe After Effects (3D rotation of x,y,z axis, directional blur, fade in/out, etc) I mimicked the original video and created the above final product.