It’s been a whirlwind two months for Toronto’s Duncan McCabe, who went viral in late November for utilizing Strava maps from his every day runs to create an animated dancing, hat-waering stick man. McCabe’s feat has been featured in The New York Occasions, Washington Submit and BlogTO, and now the 32-year-old is showing on The Kelly Clarkson Present.
McCabe’s section will air on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at 4 p.m. ET on CityTV, the place he will likely be featured within the ultimate section of the night time referred to as “#WhatImLiking.”
McCabe, who works as an accountant for the cloud-based software program firm PointClickCare, says the method of being featured on the present is one he’ll endlessly bear in mind. “They confirmed me the way it was made and let me watch the entire thing from the producer’s standpoint,” McCabe says. “When it obtained to my section, I couldn’t imagine how briskly it glided by.”
For those who’re unfamiliar with McCabe’s viral video, he spent 10 months between January 2024 and October 2024 making a Strava artwork drawing of a stick individual. In the long run, he mixed his 121 runs to create one large fluid animation set to Sofi Tukker’s hit music “Purple Hat.” The video has since been considered almost 30 million instances throughout X and TikTok.
McCabe informed Canadian Working in a earlier interview that the most important problem of constructing the video was sustaining fluid transitions, which took him months to map out.
“I believe The New York Occasions piece was my favorite,” McCabe says. “The reporter understood the venture, and now I’ll endlessly have a full-length article about me within the Occasions!”