The phrase "moving characters" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe characters in a story or narrative that evoke strong emotions or undergo significant development.
Example: "The author did an excellent job of creating moving characters that resonated with the readers."
Alternatives: "emotional characters" or "compelling characters".
The targets are always moving; characters and plot keep slipping the noose of predictability.
Here, they are combined with her ability to create memorable and moving characters to produce a state-of-England novel driven by tenderness and fury.
This is a town where oil pumpjacks spring out of backyards and roadsides, many decorated, turned into moving characters, cowboys, grasshoppers, girls, planes.
*1914: John Randolph Bray patents his method of painting moving characters on "cels" -- sheets of clear celluloid acetate -- and photographing them in front of opaque backgrounds.
The elusive nature of earthly happiness is a major theme in Tolstoy's novel, and I wish we'd been allowed to spend some more time exploring the spiritual quest of the troubled, bearish Pierre, one of the most richly moving characters in fiction.
Boxing, of course, has long been a favorite fictional device for moving characters up the social ladder; it's a sport that takes what is assumed to be a lower-class talent -- a skill in physical violence -- and ennobles it with an upper-class income.
That is why George makes such a moving character, for outside of his psychotic blackouts he understands his situation all too well.
But in doing so, it virtually obscures that the play's most credible and moving character -- and its only fully rounded one -- is Louise.
They actually help create a slightly cartoony but realistically moving character: the user.
She enjoyed the "seamlessly interwoven subplots and moving character development" and the pace of the episode, but wanted to see more of the society of the two races.
Critically, qualitatively similar effects on time estimates were observed irrespective of whether a moving character or a default static figure was displayed in the scene.
