Film rides the crest of a computer-generated waves The Perfect Storm .
Like a pilot at his controls, Stefen Fangmeier sat at the video console in a darkened meeting room at the San Rafael office of Industrial Light and Magic, a pioneer in the business of creating special effects for movies. Arrayed behind him on four rows of ratty couches and metal chairs were a dozen or so computer animators and engineers. It's a lot of flashing lightning in a very short time. It's too much. Maybe you can tone it down or take that second flash out.