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Sitting in a mock living room at his office in Vancouver, John Shepherd gestures to a video game avatar of soccer star Erling Haaland on a screen beside him. He’s especially proud of Haaland’s shorts. Shepherd narrates over a series of animations showing the Norwegian giant kicking and swiveling his hips. “It’s not easy to get that cloth looking physically accurate,” he says. “That was multiyear development.”