The quality of .avi's rendered with Maya aren't that hot, for serious work you want to render out individually numbered frames and create the animation in a program such as Speed Razor or Premiere.
Darkon
Red bellows of flame have blackened my stones
Convulsing my frame and cracking my bones
Hell's dragons of steel who roar in their chains
Crawl into my caves to suck out my veins.....
-The Mountain P.F.M.