Sohs at last I looked up the translated lyrics for Josh Groban's Oceano. I used to have the Italian lyrics, but somehow didn't get on to finding the English ones.But I think it is one of his best songs eventhough most people don't know about it. That's always the case right, singers' most publicised music and their best music are never the same piece.Anyways, enjoy if you haven't heard it before. And yes, it has elements of the ocean. What I like about it(besides Josh Groban's singing) is the instrumental background that conveys the power of the ocean and strong feelings very well, i think.Everytime I listen to this song it makes me think about lonely nautical voyages.



And here's the translations. Italian lyrics written by Mauro Malavasi

It rains on the Ocean
It rains on the Ocean
It rains on my identity
Lights on the Ocean
Lights on the Ocean
Gaps of luminosity
Maybe there in America
the winds of the Pacific
Uncover its immensity
My hands hold tight
some faraway dreams
And my thoughts run to you
I row, I shake, I feel
Deep dark abyss
It's for the love I give you
and for the love you don't know
that makes me wreck
It's for the love I don't have
and for the love I'd want
It's for this pain
It's for this love I have for you
That makes me get over those real storms
Waves on the Ocean
Waves on the Ocean
that will gently calm down
My hands hold tight
some faraway dreams
and your breath blows on me
I row, I shake, I feel
A wind around my heart
It's for the love I have for you
That makes me get over thousands of storms
It's for the love I give you
and for the love I'd want
from this sea
It's for the life that isn't there
that makes me wreck
deep in my heart
All this will have you
and to you everything will seem normal

Just out of curiousity, I compared wages of several professions related to animation.Within San Francisco...(Come on, I know you want to know also)

animator: 87,000

VFX artist:82,000

lighting artist:47,000

concept artist:56,000

3d modeler:77,000

rigging artist:40,000(totally not worth it DX)

although i dunno how accurate it is, since I heard that lighting artists get paid tons of money...

OMG this week of college is so tiring.

Monday. Animation class(5 hours). Still OK.

Tuesday and Wednesday.Practically the weekend for my class since we have classes on other days.But have to research on universities and prepare for other assignments(Combustion, group critics,final project sketches and edit the storyline), so no rest.

Thursday.Killer day, almost 12 hours spent in college. 3 hours lunch time used for doing website assignments.After class somemore have to discuss final project.

Friday. Replacement animation class(5 hours).

Saturday. Final project developement class.

And then don't forget that after 1 day of rest(not really, still have to do animation assignment)...

On Monday, animation project hand in.

Tadaa...loss of sleep and loss of appetite.

OK, now I'm not sure where I'll be going to further my studies. The problem is, I want to go into concept art, but not many animators can make it into concept art(more usual for illustrators to get in) because we are not trained in technical illustration techniques.(You see...I should have gone into Illustraton from the start) So I was asking my lecturer where to study for the best chance at going into this field. At first I wanted to go to UK but seems that it's not such a good idea. Now my lecturer recommends me to go to US, somemore to some unis that are not affiliated with my college. It doesn't matter because I can have a credit transfer and according to the lecturer, even go straight for masters with the credit hours me and my collegemates have. She was saying that I should take a major in Animation and a minor in Production design(not the same as Product design)

So the best 2 options seem to be the Academy of Art Uni (AAU) in San Francisco, or Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. I still am not sure about the cost of each though, but some people at college think that the living costs are not as high as UK, and it's more worth it to get a masters. Besides, the entertainment industry in US is stronger than in UK.

So I did some research on both art schools this morning. I was more impressed with Ringling, it seems to be the top animation college in North America, and I could find the minor that I was interested in as well. But I was more impressed with San Francisco itself(compared to Florida) Seems to have a very strong art culture, and the animation industry there is better, or so people say. The trouble with the AAU website was that it didn't tell me what minors they offered, and didn't show any student artwork. The problem with the Ringling website was that there was no info about student lodgings.

I think the next step is to ask for a prospectus from both schools before deciding. But seems that Yilyn and Najib are most probably going to AAU...

How now?

BTW seems that it's about time to sign up for further studies already.We can start signing up 6 months before the start of the course.