IOS8 animation transform not working as expected

I had a nice zoom animation that worked great until iOS8. Now he seems to "jump" halfway through the animation and looks terrible. The code was pretty simple ...

// zoom in on this focus kanji
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5f animations:^{
    // zoom in
    newFocusSentence.transform = [self getZoomTransformForKanji:thisKanji];

      

        
        
        
      

    

So I'm pretty sure nothing happened to that. The zoom hits the right place, but doesn't seem to start from the right place. The fact that he ended up in eighth place and worked makes me believe that the transformation itself is wonderful. Anyone else seeing bad results with animation conversions?

Thanks Ray