The modelling process would have been relatively easy however I encountered some pretty irritating problems in Maya which hugely held me back. As I posted previously, my software in 2013 had a number of bugs which affected navigating the scene and some specific tools. A simple process such as zooming into a specific area to rearrange vertices would take minutes as opposed to seconds, and it slowed my workflow down completely.
The examples above show the problems I had in orthographic viewports - they would often rotate, sometimes without me realising, which would alter how I'd use the image planes. I had to restart the model a number of times to rectify the problems it caused.
It got to a certain point where I decided I couldn't model with the bugs anymore, so I decided to uninstall and download 2014. Unfortunately, I was faced with more problems - 2014 wouldn't install because of my OS, as well as being affected by problems caused by Maya 2013. I also couldn't reinstall 2013, and I still haven't been able to solve as to why.
I ended up installing Maya 2012, importing my model as an OBJ. Most of the problems have been solved now, however Maya 2012 does still frequently crash without warning, meaning that I'm still losing a lot of work.
My solution will be to do a manual backup of my laptop, wipe the hard disk and reboot to a previous OS. However, I can't do this until a buy a new hard drive! If this doesn't solve the issues I don't know what will!
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