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You should never ever start working on the project before you get confirmation that you were selected and the client has prepaid. There's warnings about that all over the place. If you managed to miss that and start working on the project without being selected and even handed the files, then your only hope to get paid is if the client is decent person. Consider this hard learnt lesson and never do the same mistake again.
Thank you for the advice. I understand it now and have definitely learned from this experience. I will be more careful in future projects.
Yup, LemonadeCG is spot on. I didn´t catch the fact that you sent files BEFORE getting picked and before a deal was made.
Send a generic model (or part of one) if the client wants to check the overall quality of your work - but sending final files before a deal is made is asking for trouble. I think most of us have done this, and it's unfortunately often the only way to learn.
This happened to me once when I started working here. If a client asks you to send the files so he can check the quality of the work, just send him screenshots. Once, a client said he was going to start the project but kept delaying, saying I should send him the files and that he would pay ASAP. This went on for over a month. He never prepaid, and I never sent him the files in advance.
Therefore, the best approach is to avoid sharing files beforehand.
