Ladies and Gentlemen! Ice-T in the makeup chair. Mike Smithson works on his "T-Saint" Ripper makeup for Rachel Talalay's Tank Girl. While in the middle of production on Interview With the Vampire, Stan Winston Studio was also designing and preparing two other films: Tank Girl and Congo, both released in 1995. Stan Winston Studio created the half-man/half-kangaroo characters called 'Rippers. They were created almost entirely through non-mechanical makeup appliances. Although, some required mechan