This week’s task was to design, create and animate a useless machine. A useless machine or useless box is a device which has a function but its direct purpose is deliberately unknown.

I first created a basic Useless Machine: When the switch on the top of the box is flipped “on”, a finger comes out of the box, turns the switch “off”, and then retracts into the box.

I after created a Useless Machine Variation using a model of the character Wall-e from the university library, since he is a robot and I thought it could work well with the mechanical movement of the box, moreover wall-e himself has box-like features. I tried to recreate some of his characteristic animation from the film.