Toronto-based accountant Duncan McCabe has taken Strava artwork to new heights. Mixing his passions for video modifying and working, he has created a viral TikTok that includes a mesmerizing animation of a Strava-art stick man.
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As of Friday morning, McCabe’s dancing Strava video has garnered greater than eight million views on social media.
We spoke to McCabe, the artist, who mentioned he was shocked on the video’s viral success. He says he was impressed by San Francisco Strava artist Lenny Maughan and Toronto’s Mike Scott, who famously biked a GPS route of an enormous beaver throughout town’s east finish. In 2023, McCabe created a sequence of animal drawings main as much as the Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
The 32-year-old defined the in depth planning behind his newest venture, set to Sofi Tukker’s hit track Purple Hat. “For six months, I had a line throughout the stick particular person’s head that was used for animation,” McCabe mentioned. “The hat-tip provides creativity and is a nod to the track.”
McCabe says the largest problem was sustaining fluid transitions. “My stick man needed to be the identical measurement within the frames,” he defined. “I mapped it out for 10 months.”
McCabe discovered motivation for the venture by constantly seeing his progress and dates on his Strava. “It was the motivating issue for me,” he mentioned.
With viral fame comes scrutiny, and McCabe has confronted skepticism on X and TikTok in regards to the video’s diagonal traces. “It’s plausible proper up till the stick man runs easily diagonally by means of a row of homes many times,” one consumer commented.
Nevertheless, the diagonal traces make his video much more spectacular, as McCabe needed to begin and cease his watch to make sure the traces met exactly at sure factors on the map.
Huge kudos!