Illustrating with Story Pop

For those without drawing skills: Story Pop is a library of animatable, hand-drawn whiteboard sketches for Final Cut Pro that can simply be dragged into the timeline.
A person drawing a cartoon monster beside the text 'STORY POP'

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The Final Cut plug-in is offered by FXFactory, while Story Pop was developed by the company Stupid Raisins. 

Sketches are available to choose from in categories such as "People" and "Animals", or other general symbol forms. You can then select an animation for the sketch model, adjust the colour with the Color Picker and add fonts – if desired.

So if you want to add comic-style graphics to your film works quickly, Story Pop is an inexpensive option: it is available for 49 US dollars. Here you can buy it. 

Here is a general demo of Story Pop:

And a tutorial for concrete use in Final Cut Pro: