A man in Toronto, Canada, has gone viral after taking a video of his running routes for several months and turning it into a flip animation that looks like a dancing stick man. Using route-tracking app Strava, Duncan McCabe (32), an accountant by profession, blended his passions of running and editing to create a viral video. As of the last update, the video had been viewed 25 million times on X (formerly Twitter) and had more than nine million hits on the short-video platform, TikTok.
The video caption reads, “Strava art animation through the streets of Toronto! This got me 121 runs from January to October 2024.”
Mr. McCabe said he was inspired by San Francisco Strava artist Lenny Maughan and Toronto’s Mike Scott, who in 2022 sketched a giant beaver across the city using their bike’s GPS route.
“For six months, I had a line drawn on the head of the stick man that was used for animation. The hat-tip adds creativity and is a cue to sing,” Mr. McCabe was quoted as saying. Canada is running,
“My stick man had to be the same size in the frame. I mapped it out for 10 months,” he said.
After the video went viral, appreciation poured in for Mr. McCabe from the running community as well as social media users who were amazed by the flawless execution of the plan and idea.
One user said, “This is one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen someone do,” while another said: “The amount of effort and planning that went into this is incredible.”
A third commented: “This is the greatest race-related post I’ve ever seen. And I don’t think it can be beat.”
I’ve seen a lot of community running in Toronto, but this guy wins. pic.twitter.com/il9LBXyiSD
– Ben Steiner (@BenSteiner00) 21 November 2024
This is not the first time Mr. McCabe has managed to create moving art on such a large scale. Last year he posted animations of various animals running 700 kilometers through the streets of Toronto. The stick figures included a dinosaur, a giraffe, a whale, and a shark.
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