on the first effect:
Best results will be a 3D program. You’re right, it’s not CC Page Turn. You can do a simple turn (not a curl) by using Card Wipe, but then that’s not the look you’re going after. You may also be able to get a similar look with Zaxwerks’ new 3D Warps plug-in:
Zaxwerks 3D Warps
I don’t have this plug-in so I can’t help you there. 🙁
On the 2nd effect:
How familiar are you with After Effects? The distortion is handled by the displacement Map Effect. Click Aharon Rabinowitz’s picture above and scroll way down to find his 3-part tutorials on Displacement mapping. You can also go to Ayato@web for inspiration but the examples he uses (while the best on the web) can be hard to decipher:
Ayato@web
In particular look at effect #’s 21 and 26.
rjf