I'm still just learning my way through Maya and I've come up against a need to have a nice looking page turn effect, kind of like the page turns in the book at the beginning of Shrek.

Are there any good tutorials out there that show how to set up something like this?

I tried using a bend deformer on a NURBS plane, and that looked okay, but it wasn't free-flowing like the Shrek pages (obviously).

Am I looking at having to just do manual point animation to get that free-flowing page turn look, or are there better ways of doing it?