Blender Crowd Running Simulation Test

I wanted to try and get a bunch of people running in a scene I'm making for an animated short. I haven't done any texturing yet. I wanted to keep everything pretty low-poly. This is mainly just a proof of concept.
If you guys wanted to see a tutorial I'd be happy to make one, but I basically just used ideas from these videos
Polyfjord: • Animate a Character in...
Ian Hubert: • Animating Huge Crowds ...
Music: Lo-fi HipHop (Rainy Day) - tictac9 freesound.org/...

[@warcat3d]

would love a tut on this! is this animated solely with shape keys?

[@siddharthbhargav]

I'd be happy to make one! It might take me a while but it should be pretty quick.
I actually didn't use shape keys to animate the crowd, I would recommend checking out the video linked in the description by Polyfjord which goes into detail about the main method I used to produce this. The people were animated pseudo-procedurally and it mainly used paths and noise in the graph editor.
I don't know how much sense that made, but trust me his video will clear it up more.