Greetings all- I can't for the life of me figure out how to render just a complete frame to a file in an animation. I don't want to save it as just an mov or separate channels etc, just singular full frames as you render an animation, straight to disk. This has to be possible correct? If not I would be extremely disappointed. I do this with lightwave no problem. Thanks in advance!

Of course it is possible. Go to format options in the render animation window. And select bitmap, tiff, tga or whatever. You will find that in the popup bar on to - by default it says "animation" there.

Actually, 'format options' gives you access to which codec (or full frame uncompressed) you want to use. Once you select the full frame uncompressed option in that panel and click okay, hit the 'browse' button next. This brings up an OS GUI save screen. Choose your save location, enter your file name, and (with Windows at least), open the 'save as type' dropdown below that, and choose your extension. And it is a little counter intuitive....

Thanks for the info. However it doesn't seems to be saving things like glow and the sky background. This seems to be quite silly.

it do save sky backgrounds etc, unless youve opted to only render certain parts of your scene (so check your render settings)