VIKTOR KALVACHEV
Viktor Kalvachev is a great ´ storyteller. During our time with the Bulgarian born artist he tells us about the time when heearned a living drawing caricatures of drunk people in Sofia bars, making more money in some nights than his dad made in a month. Then there’s the one that involved negotiating a lucrative contract with a US company to produce vector images – despite having no experience producing vector images – and eventually building a team that created over 5,000 unique clip art pictures every single month.
One of Viktor’s stories reveals how he moved to California to start the job for which he successfully interviewed with a black eye and hair dyed accidentally green. Another about how he moved to Paris to work on a video game based on his own comic book.
There’s the story about how he somehow acquired state-of-the art 3D software that enabled his small team in Sofia to make better assets for children’s games than most companies were making for adult games. The one about how he went on a kind of reconnaissance mission to the US to get a feel for America culture (for the clip art assignment)
