I was an interview subject in a documentary about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and in it I make a big point about how Kubrick went back to Royal Wedding, a 1951 Fred Astaire movie musical, to figure out how to shoot his space scenes. It's smart to learn from other's experience!

I bet you less than 1% of students in animVFX school know that 2001aso exists and if they do they regard it as old and irrelevant. They were taught that they can conquer the world by themselves for the sake of existing