Goal #1, $500: REACHED!

Thank you all for making this possible! The pledges from last month have been completely processed, and we reached our first goal of $500 pledged per month.

True to my word, I've begun the upgrades on my computer, starting with the most important one: moving from 8GBs of RAM to 16GB. I've also ordered a 256GB SSD to help speed up production--but that's still in the mail.

Once again, thanks for all the donations, kind words, and support. As much time and effort as this project takes, your belief in it has kept us going. If we hit $850 pledges per month I'm also going to order a GTX 1080 in the hopes of creating higher resolution images and  (some day) animations.