Thursday, December 28, 2006

Raketu Web Page Design and Cartoon Action

So the Raketu ad I did worked out pretty well...well enough that they asked me to design their web page in a similar vein and animate some cartoons. Here's some of my thumbnail boards for it.I met with Greg Parker, the genius rocket scientist who created Raketu and did the programming and he gave me a live demo to show me what Raketu was and what it could do.

His iconoclastic headstrong Irish marketing rebel, Oliver McIntyre and I got together to cook up swell new ways to advertise the product that will be entertaining even while it explains why your world will be much simpler by using Raketu.

Greg's partner, Martina is from a Slavic nation (like me!) and she told me about a really funny cartoon series about a wolf who chain smokes and is creative, who chases a sissy bunny and tries to murder him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu,_pogodi!
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My problem is how to sell a product that does so many things. It seems to coordinate all the activities you do on the internet into one window and program. That's hard to say in an ad! People want to know simple and clear specifics, so we decided to break up the Raketu application into broad main categories.

FREE PHONE SERVICE THROUGH YOUR COMPUTER OR SMART PHONE

The most obvious thing it does is save tons of money in phone bills. For $9.95-as a one time payment, you get to start a Raketu account and then you get to call national and international for nothing in 42 countries. The countries that aren't free are still waay cheaper than any phone company or other VOIP service. So if you get Raketu for nothing else, you will see your phone bills dwindle to just what you pay for your monthly internet bill or your cell phone minimum minutes payment.

These are some of the storyboard sketches I did for a cartoon which brings old George Liquor into the world of the future and saves him a shitload of cash (which is the only way to get him to soften his distrust of anything new!)



You have to get a phone or headphones with microphone to hook up to your computer, then you call thousands of miles away and talk as long as you like.

Raketu is mainly for PC users, not Mac yet and it simplifies your nasty windows within windows torture.

Some other key selling points:

UNIVERSAL INSTANT MESSAGING

If you have AIM, then you can't talk to your friends who have MSN or Yahoo, etc. Not without downloading each service and leaving all these windows open at the same time. SCREW THAT! Raketu lets you talk to anyone on any instant message service all at the same time. You just tell Raketu which services you want to be active.

COMBINE ALL YOUR ONLINE APPLICATIONS INTO ONE AND DO MULTIPLE TASKS AT ONCE

Podcasting, multimedia, games, entertainment and more stuff can all be done. To be honest, I haven't used many of these services anyway, but if you do, then you can be useful to the whole world.

So listen. Do me a favor and help me do my job here and you will see more cartoons fast-by the end of January!

DOWNLOAD IT NOW! IT'S FREE AND THE FASTEST DOWNLOAD EVER!
If you have a PC (which I don't) download Raketu and sign up (don't even pay the 10 bucks yet if you don't need the phone stuff right away, just use all the free stuff) and then post comments telling me what you like best.

I'm gonna put cartoons up on the Raketu that advertise each of these aspects of Raketu so now's your chance to feed me some input!

I'm counting on you to help me get you the cartoons you want....