CABasicAnimation - transform scale keep in center

Trying to animatie an ellipse masked on a UIView to be scale transformed remaining in the center position.

I have found CALayer - CABasicAnimation not scaling around center/anchorPoint, and followed by adding a bounds property to the maskLayer CAShapeLayer however, this ends with the mask being positioned in the left corner with only 1/4 of it showing. I would like the mask to remain within the center of the screen.

@synthesize maskedView;
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    UIViewController *vc = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"Next"];

    vc.view.frame = CGRectMake(0,0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height);
vc.view.layer.bounds = self.view.layer.bounds;

    CAShapeLayer *maskLayer = [[CAShapeLayer alloc] init];

    CGRect maskRect = CGRectMake((self.view.frame.size.width/2)-50, (self.view.frame.size.height/2)-50, 100, 100);
    CGMutablePathRef path = CGPathCreateMutable();
    CGPathAddEllipseInRect(path, nil, maskRect);
    [maskLayer setPath:path];

    CGPathRelease(path);

    vc.view.layer.mask = maskLayer;
    [self.view addSubview:vc.view];

    maskedView = vc.view;
    [self startAnimation];
}

Animation...

-(void)startAnimation
{
    maskedView.layer.mask.bounds = CGRectMake((self.view.frame.size.width/2)-50, (self.view.frame.size.height/2)-50, 100, 100);
    maskedView.layer.mask.anchorPoint = CGPointMake(.5,.5);
    maskedView.layer.mask.contentsGravity = @"center";

    CABasicAnimation *animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"transform.scale"];

    animation.duration = 1.0f;
    animation.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut];
    animation.fromValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0f];
    animation.toValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:5.0f];

    [maskedView.layer.mask addAnimation:animation forKey:@"animateMask"];
}

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Update

I seem to have fixed this with a second animation on the position key. Is this correct or is there a better way of doing this?

CABasicAnimation *animation2 = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position"];

animation2.duration = 1.0f;

animation2.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut];

animation2.fromValue = [NSValue valueWithCGPoint:CGPointMake((self.view.frame.size.width/2), (self.view.frame.size.height/2))];
animation2.toValue = [NSValue valueWithCGPoint:CGPointMake((self.view.frame.size.width/2), (self.view.frame.size.height/2))];

[toBeMask.layer.mask addAnimation:animation2 forKey:@"animateMask2"];

I seem to have fixed this with a second animation on the position key. Is this correct or is there a better way of doing this?

CABasicAnimation *animation2 = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position"];

animation2.duration = 1.0f;

animation2.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut];

animation2.fromValue = [NSValue valueWithCGPoint:CGPointMake((self.view.frame.size.width/2), (self.view.frame.size.height/2))];
animation2.toValue = [NSValue valueWithCGPoint:CGPointMake((self.view.frame.size.width/2), (self.view.frame.size.height/2))];

[toBeMask.layer.mask addAnimation:animation2 forKey:@"animateMask2"];