Zancan is a generative and plotter artist based in Bordeaux, France, who renders natural forms — gardens, forests, fallen ruins — through code, describing his own style as “figurative generative art”. A former oil painter and self-taught coder since his teens, he worked briefly as an electronics engineer before turning to painting and later to generative art after discovering NFTs in March 2021.
As a teenager he coded in assembler for the Atari demoscene, and he later earned an engineering degree in electronics, working in that field for a year before switching to painting. He then co-founded a development studio with a friend, making real-time visuals and interactive installations for museums, before returning to drawing after a six-year break. He learned about NFTs after hearing a colleague discuss Beeple's The First 5000 Days sale in March 2021, and made his first NFT, The Oak Tree, an 18-part piece on Foundation whose PNG output led him to the vector-line, transparent-wash style for which he later became known.
