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Unfortunately adding 3D shape to a 2D image is not a trivial problem to solve.  As you've seen, the existing shapes simply take the 2D image and rotate it in 3D space.
In a future update (planned 0.6) it will be possible to define custom meshes for events.
For now though, you could try creating a custom texture that will look better from the camera angle you're using.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely try that!  I'm looking forward to the custom meshes, I had read that you were going to try to implement them on the RPG Maker forum.  (:

Any chance that 3d player models would be in the cards for a future release?