Help UON Visuals animate again!

UPDATE 5/25/2014

I've had this new workstation for a month and a half now and am making incredible new visuals with it! I did manage to buy the 1080 TI, and I finished my "Thank You" mix for everyone who donated and sent it to them! It even includes the crazy new visuals I've made on the new PC! Here's the youtube version. It's almost 30 minutes long:

I was going to close the fundraiser because it was successful, but people are still donating because they want a full quality pixel-perfect version of the mix. So I'm going to leave it up and put the money towards a second 1080 TI I'm saving up for. For anyone who donates, I'll email you the download link... and when I get a second TI you also get the download link to the next mix I make with that card... probably in about a year or so!

Thanks again everyone! It's been a great success :)

CAMPAIGN UPDATE:

Between my savings and this successful campaign, I've raised enough money for my new workstation. It will be up and running late March or early April. I am leaving this campaign up for one more thing.. a GTX 1080Ti for GPU rendering. It will enable me to preview my animations in realtime with full effects, and render at HUNDREDS of times the speed with OctaneRender!

After I reach my goal and get it, I will close this campaign and send everyone who donated a long mix of my visuals in full 1080p/60fps quality! Including some new ones rendered on the 1080Ti :)

Thank you all for the support, you not only helped me get back up and running, but also the ability to push my visuals farther than ever. I will give you the best content I've made as a special thanks <3

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Hey everyone, Mike V here also known as the guy behind UON Visuals. I make trippy mathematic visual loops for everyone to enjoy... that is until my workstation stopped working.

I got it as a donation from a friend after my previous computer started having problems rendering. It was beyond anything I could afford at the time and really pushed the quality of my animations to a new level. They were being shared everywhere and my facebook page grew from 5000 fans to over 120,000 fans over the past 3 months. Everything was looking up, even though I was working 10 hour night shifts and preparing to move to another city, I still managed to pump out a few animations a week. I even learned to make Virtual Reality Videos :)

Then, in the past two months, everything went downhill. The apartment we were supposed to move into got severe water damage the day we were moving in, and we couldn't move into it. Then a week later my car gets stolen, and I have to spend the last of my savings (and then some) to replace it.

At least I had my animations going for me right?

WRONG. Life wasn't done throwing curve balls at me yet. I got sick with the flu, missed a couple days work, and during this time my computer died. I was able to boot it up long enough one last time to get my project files off of it, but after that it completely stopped working. Turning it on makes the fans spin, but other than that it shows no signs of life. No video output to the monitor at all, I can't even get to the BIOS. I opened it up and saw liquid cooling residue on the video card, so I bought a couple cheap video cards on craigslist hoping it was only the video card that was dead, still nothing.

At this point there's not much I can do to keep making animations, at least anything close to the quality I was making before. I need to save up and get a workstation capable of crunching enough numbers to bring my animations to life.

With the way things are going, it'll take me several months to save up enough money, with my job ending soon and all my expenses. This is why I'm asking for help, because making these animations is my passion and waiting that long would drive me crazy.

(I do have a 32-thread render server, but it's useless for designing animations on since the design process only uses 1 core, and each is pretty slow. Plus it doesn't support a capable OpenGL card to display the viewport geometry fast enough.)

I have no idea how successful this will be but these are the minimum specs I'm saving up for:

- Latest Intel I7 or AMD Ryzen CPU
-  64 GB DDR4 RAM (My animations max out RAM easily)
- GTX 1080 or AMD VEGA Video card
- 256 GB PCI Express SSD
- OctaneRender for Cinema 4D (so I can render a LOT faster using the GPU)

If I manage to exceed this goal, I will put all the extra money into beefing up the hardware, and buying the plugins and software I've always dreamed of having. The quality of my future animations could get pretty insane, and I'll always be posting them on my instagram and facebook for free for everyone to enjoy!