Dolphin and Magnus 2.0 M&L style with new and improved X-Nauts!

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I knew it was more PiT style, I was just showing you how exactly to go about fixing up the actual shape and adding more depth to it, as it stands now it's flat and kind of boring. ML adds somewhat of a... "flavor" to each character, even older characters like Bowser, Boo, Goomba and Hammer Bro look more stylized. As of now it just looks like the SMW styled Dolphin, which is almost 20 years old, I'd think Nintendo would try to modernize the character a bit without deviating from the original style. Take Dry Bones, he used to look like a hunched over koopa without eyes and red shoes. Then Mario Baseball hit, then Mario Party, then Mario Kart and suddenly Dry Bones was his own character, with his own uniqueness to him and a new flavor to the character of a "krumbling koopa."

Now, your new edits made are exactly what the sprite needs. Now do that to the side poses, and remember, Dolphins move up and down, not left and right. If you really feel like having an adventure, you could arch the dolphins back in a few poses so its spine goes like ~ as it moves like real dolphins do.