text: Graffiti artists are hoping to raise a smile with stressed-out Beijing residents – by painting neglected phone booths so that they look like the lovable robot Baymax from the Disney movie Big Hero 6. An eight-strong team have transformed more than 30 telephone booths in China’s capital city into a representation of Baymax, who has attracted a cult following in the country. Xiao Wang told The People’s Daily Online that he and his fellow graffiti artists – most of them design students – worked through the night to complete project ‘Beijing Warmth’. Phone booths in Beijing have been painted in the style of Disney character Baymax by graffiti artists . The team of artists painted 30 phonebooths in five hours overnight, calling the project 'Beijing Warmth' The loveable character Baymax appears in the movie Big Hero 6 about a young boy with a talent for robotics . Starting at midnight, they hit the streets in teams of four to spend five hours working on the phone boxes, using a total of 24 cans of paint. The 28-year-old said that living and working in Beijing is ‘very stressful’ — adding that he himself had witnessed three people take their own lives in just one month. ‘We chose this area due to the higher population of young people’, he said, adding he thinks the team’s work has improved the road. However their work may soon be removed, after a spokesman from the Haidan Municipal Committee said the phone booths - usually red - should not have been painted a different colour. Artist Xiao Wang said they wanted to raise a smile with burnt-out Beijing residents who live stressful lives . As the Baymax craze sweeps China, a flight school even has their teacher dressing up as the robot . An official from the Beijing Municipal Government said there were no set rules on how to deal with graffiti, and the response was different depending on the content. If the artwork was not offensive and colouring matched the surroundings then it could be allowed to stay, he added. 'Big Hero 6' won the Oscar for the best animated feature in February this year, and its popular character Baymax has a won big following in China after it was released in February. The film became the highest grossing Disney film in China, taking in more than $51 million. Trainee flight attendants at the Sichuan Southwest Vocational College have began dressing like the robot during their lessons, while another craze has seen parents making dumplings in the shape of Baymax to encourage their children to eat. 'Big Hero 6' is the highest grossing Disney films of all time in China, taking in more than $51 million .
target: Graffiti artists work through the night to repaint 30 telephone booths .
  Latest in series of Baymax-themed stunts as character craze sweeps China .
  Artists wanted to help burned-out Beijing residents feel less stressed .