paulsj75: 
You are very observant, and understand where I'm going with this project. :) I want to make the end result a surprise and dont want to reveal too much.

I'm going to take a look at the PyCarrara plugin, but the install docs talked about Carrara 7 so I'm not sure it will work for me.

I do need to beef up the scene with some more elements than just the rotating cubes, I was thinking maybe dropping some objects using the article emitter into the mix.

Will see.