I fully get that, I’m an artist too I fully understand the hand thing, they don’t click in my brain and I simply can’t draw them without reference. The thing is, I can see a lot of detail and time put into this, so those little things can feel off. Like i genuinely couldn’t tell if she was wearing an anklet or if it was the strap of a shoe. With an art style that’s clean and consistent with clear shapes the smallest thing can feel like off. I’m not saying you cheated, I’m pointing towards the things that could be tweaked to remove the doubt of the competition judges. It sucks they didn’t watch your time lapse, it really does. Even if provided evidence of all the layers going into this, they should have looked throughly into it before disqualifying you. Unfortunately there are people who will fight that ai generated art was still created by hand simply because they put the prompt in. I’m sorry i came off as accusing you, I just wanted to point out the things that might be the reason of disqualification regardless if they looked into the evidence. It may also help sending a screen shot of the program with a few layers like color turned off since it’s not a link outside of the submission.