WSJ:

Two years ago, Chuck O’Brien was in Hollywood making cadavers for “CSI: Miami.” His masterpieces included a partially digested torso that spilled from a shark and a finger that oozed sweat.
But he says he got “sick of making dead bodies” for demanding directors. He also worried that computer animation, cheaper and faster than building fake body parts, was rendering his skill obsolete in the movie business.
So on a rainy spring morning last month, he found himself hunched over a Marine’s foot at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here. Cpl. Corey Webb had lost his left leg in Fallujah last June when his Humvee, rushing to a firefight, collided with a U.S. tank. Now, Mr. O’Brien was painting a silicone replica of the missing appendage as the 23-year-old corporal posed, showing off his remaining foot under bright hot lights.
“This guy is my foot artist,” Cpl. Webb announced to a group of Marines on a goodwill tour who were passing out T-shirts to the wounded. Eyeing the eerily real-looking work in progress, he announced: “It’s going to look great in a flip-flop.”
Since November 2003, when he left Hollywood, Mr. O’Brien has been working for Alternative Prosthetic Services, a nine-person company in Southport, Conn., that makes arms, legs and the occasional finger or ear for accident victims and the war wounded…