Visual Storyteller

about Viktor Kalvachev

We tell ourselves stories
in order to live

With more than 20 years of experience, Viktor considers himself a “visual storyteller.” His career has taken him across the globe and extended his range from art production, graphic novel creator, graphic designer, UIX designer, chief creative officer and freelancer with notable clients such as Disney, Pixar, Steven Spielberg, Hasbro and Nickelodeon. He’s the creator of Blue Estate, a hardboiled crime series that takes place in modern day Los Angeles. It’s got a sleazy action hero actor with a passing resemblance to Steven Seagal, the Russian Mafia, the Italian Mafia, a geeky fanboy private eye in his 40s, a B-movie actress, drugs, alcohol, strippers, hookers, and seedy establishments. It’s dirty and gritty and a lot of fun, in an LA Confidential way.

Born in 1972, in Bulgaria, where he took his M.F.A. degree from the National Academy of Fine Arts of Sofia, Viktor moved to the US in his 20s to begin a career in the entertainment industry that led him to work on almost every major children IP from Micky Mouse Playhouse and Blue’s Clues, to Spiderman and The Incredibles. He published his art book Inspire: The Art of Viktor Kalvachev on Kickstarter. Today he lives in France.